ANNUAL REPORT
2018- 2019
ZAKIR HUSAIN DELHI COLLEGE JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU MARG, NEW DELHI-110002 WEBSITE: www.zakirhusaindelhicollege.ac.in 011-23232218, 011-23232219 Fax: 011-23215906
Table of Content
I. Principal’s Message II. Co-ordinator’s Message III. Co-ordinator’s of Annual Day Committees IV. Members of Annual Day Committees V. Annual Report Compilation Committee VI. Reports of College Committees
1. Memorial Lecture Committee 2. Arts and Culture Society 3. B.A.Programme Society 4. Botany Society 5. Career, Counselling and Placement Cell 6. Debating Society 7. Enabling Unit 8. Gandhi Study Circle 9. Garden Committee 10. Girls’ Association 11. Internal Complaints Committee 12. National Cadet Corps 13. National Service Scheme 14. Nature and Environment Society 15. North-East Student Counselling and Welfare Cell 16. Photography society 17. Students’ Union Advisory Committee 18. Quiz Society
VII Reports of Departments
1. Department of Arabic 2. Department of Bengali 3. Department of Botany 4. Department of Chemistry 5. Department of Commerce 6. Department of English 7. Department of History 8. Department of Life Sciences 9. Department of Mathematics 10. Department of Persian 11. Department of Physical Education 12. Department of Physical Science 13. Department of Political Science 14. Department of Psychology 15. Department of Sanskrit 16. Department of Urdu 17. Department of Zoology
VIII Individual Achievements
1. Department of Arabic 2. Department of Chemistry 3. Department of Commerce 4. Department of Economics 5. Department of Electronics
6. Department of English 7. Department of Mathematics 8. Department of Persian 9. Department of Philosophy 10. Department of Political Science 11. Department of Sanskrit 12. Department of Zoology 13. Librarian
IX Award Committee X List of Award Winners
Dr. Masroor Ahmad Beg Officiating Principal Zakir Husain Delhi College (Morning) University of Delhi, India.
Principal’s Message
In its long history, Zakir Husain Delhi College has been true to its motto, “live by love”. In keeping with our tradition of recognizing the accomplishments and diligence of its teachers and students, once again we are felicitating our achievers on the eve of college Annual day 2018-19. Achievements of colleagues and students are a mark of excellence for any institution and a moment of pride for the head of the institution.
A blend of academic pursuits and extra-curricular activities in a harmonious way is essential for the personality development of the students. Participation in group activities during cultural events develops a sense of solidarity among students and inculcates humanistic values. Our college has always encouraged students to actively participate in both, academic and extra-cultural activities to harness their energy in creative pursuits.
I convey my heartiest congratulations to colleagues for their achievement in their respective disciplines during 2018-2019 and to all the students for their great feats in different fields ranging from NCC, NSS and Sports to debate, creative writing, music, dance and drama. It is heartening to report that our students have not only participated but also won several prizes in various inter-college and national events.
I am thankful to all the members of the teaching fraternity and non-teaching staff for their contribution in organizing this event. Special thanks to those colleagues who had worked meticulously in several committees to make the Annual Day and Award Ceremony, a huge success. I am confident that Zakir Husain Delhi College will continue to accomplish great feats in the years to come.
Dr. Ravi Ranjan Coordinator Annual Day and Award Ceremony 2018-2019 Zakir Husain College
Coordinator’s Message Annual day and Award ceremony is an illustrious event for any institution. Awards not only recognize individual excellence but also motivate other students to participate in academic and co-cultural activities of the college. Annual reports encourage fellow colleagues to actively participate in corporate life of the college. Such collaborative efforts enhance the morale of the students, teachers and staff.
This annual report is a value addition in our collective intellectual journey. I congratulate all the award winners and individual achievers who have proved their mettle in different fields. I am thankful to my colleagues, who participated in several committees and worked tirelessly to ensure the success of the Annual day function, 2019.
26 th April 2019
Co-ordinators of Annual Day Committees
1. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 2. Dr. Sangeeta Pandita 3. Dr. Saba Khan 4. Dr. Anuradha Marwah 5. Ms. Naghma Zafir 6. Dr. Sharmishtha Sen 7. Mr. Mukesh K. Jain 8. Dr. Md. Aftab Alam 9. Dr. Sunil Kumar 10. Mr. M. Zafar Kamal
Members of Annual Day Committees Compilation of Annual Report
1. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Coordinator) 6. Dr. Deeksha Yadav 2. Dr. Syed Mohammad Tariq 7. Dr. Ruchi Singh 3. Ms. Sarita Sarsar 8. Dr. Kailash Dhanuk 4. Dr. Shabana Azmi 9. Dr. Santosh Juvvaka 5. Dr. Tripta Sharma 10. Dr. Aftab Alam
Academic Merit Awards & Scholarships
1. Mr. Mukesh K. Jain (Coordinator) 2. Dr. Abdul Wahid Farooqi 3. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 4. Dr. Sunil Kumar 5. Mr. Ayaz Ahmed
Retired Personnel bio-data : Ms. Naghma Zafir & Mr. Ayaz Ahmed
Punctuality : Mr. Ayaz Ahmed & Mr. M. Zafar Kamal
Launching of Magazines : Dr. Sharmishtha Sen (Coordinator) & Mr. Abul Wafa (Computer Lab.)
Auditorium Management
Stage 1. Dr. Ravi Ranjan Seating: 1. Dr. Anita Grover (Coordinator) 2. Dr. Shahnaz Ara Begum 3. Dr. Tabassum jehan 4. Dr. Laxman Yadav 5. Dr. Jamshed Khan 6. Dr. Sunil Kumar 7. Dr. Ashima Khurana 8. Dr. Tabassum Jahan 9 Ms. Sufiya 10 Dr. K. Uma 11 Dr. Jyotasna (Zoology) 12. Dr. Jamshed Khan 13. Ms. Chinu Madan 14. Dr. Ritu Mathur 15. Dr. Amir Jamal 16. Dr. Partima Negi 17. Dr. Thandi Lal Meena 18. Ms. Sayema Ahmed 19. Mr. Surjit Kumar 20. Ms. Shoeba 21. Ms. Jasmine Jha
Registration: 1. Dr. Sunil Kumar (Coordinator) 6. Dr. Rajesh Tripathi 2. Mr. Hriday Bhanu Pratap 7. Dr. Shahzad Ahmed (Chem.) 3. Dr. Mohd. Afzal 8. Dr. Manohar (Chem.) 4. Dr. Mohd. Sabir 9. Dr. Santosh J. (Pol. Science) 5. Dr. Pratima Negi 10. Dr. Pankaj Sharma (Maths.) 11. Dr. Renu (Pol. Science) Choir Arrangements 1. Dr. Anuradha Marwah (Coordinator) 3. Dr. Samta Goyal 2. Dr. Swati Aggarwal 4. Dr. Anannya Bandyopadhyay
Award Selection Committee 1. Dr. Sangeeta Pandita (Coordinator) 9. Dr. Mohsineen Wazir 2. Capt. Dr. M. M. Raheman 10. Dr. A.W. Farooqi 3. Dr. Anuradha Marwah 11. Ms. Shubhra Dubey 4. Dr. Aftab Alam 12. Ms. Shoeba 5. Dr. Anushree 13. Ms. Sayema Ahmed 6. Dr. Swati Aggarwal 14. Dr. Mohd. Afzal 7. Mr. Mukesh Kr. Jain 15. Dr. Pankaj Sharma 8. Dr. Ritu Mathur
Invitations
Mr. M. Zafar Kamal
Refreshment Committee Lunch for Guests 1. Dr. Md. Aftab Alam (Coordinator) 1. Dr. Saba Khan (Coordinator) 2. Ms. Reeta (Commerce) 2. Dr. Gulgoona Jamal 3. Ms. Shruti Gupta 3. Dr. Suraiya Khan 4. Dr. Santosh (Pol. Science)
Maintenance of Discipline 1. Proctorial Board 2. Volunteers both from faculty and NSS, NCC
Photographer : Mr. M Zafar Kamal
Media Committee : All members of Media Committee
Annual Report Compilation Committee
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Coordinator) Dr. Syed Mohammad Tariq Ms. Sarita Sarsar Dr. Shabana Azmi Dr. Tripta Sharma Dr. Deeksha Yadav Dr. Ruchi Singh Dr. Kailash Dhanuk Dr. Santosh Juvvaka Dr. Aftab Alam
Reports of College Committees
Memorial Lecture Committee
Convenor: Dr. Ratnum Kaul Wattal
The 12 th Delhi College Lecture was held on 23 rd April 2019. Padamshree Ram Bahadur Rai,
President, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts delivered a lecture on “Gandhi iss Samay”.
Arts and Culture Society
Convenor: Dr. Anuradha Marwah
The Arts and Culture Society is a thriving body of students committed to the practice, development and propagation of performing arts. It is one of the most active student groups in the University of
Delhi, winning various competitions every year and its members performing extraordinarily well individually. The society is headed by Dr. Anuradha Marwah Associate Professor, Department of
English. She is an eminent theatre personality as well as a renowned international scholar. The student secretary for the year 2018-2019 is Mr. Raja Dutt. The Arts and Culture Society has a group of accomplished and dedicated faculty members to supervise the functioning of its six sub- societies.
The six sub societies of the Arts and Culture Society are Aman -the Theatre Society; Dhanak -the
Western Dance Society, Dhwanik -the Indian Classical Music Society; Suchitra- the Fine Arts
Society; Nrityathi-the Classical Dance Society; and Illume- the Western Music Society. Suchitra,
Nrityathi, and Illume were established in the current year. All these sub societies have not only performed but have also excelled in various competitions.
Aman : The Theatre Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College was established in 2015 and has subsequently made significant contributions to the New Delhi theatre circuit. The society has
brought laurels to the college by winning numerous competitions at Collegiate, State and National levels. It has been invited to perform by organisations such as Shakespeare Society of India, the
British Council, Ashoka University, Kirori Mal College, among many other prestigious institutions.
Through its incessant hard-work and unwavering commitment Aman has been able to win the
National Drama Competition of the Shakespeare Society of India for a record five times in a row.
In the session 2018-19, Aman Theatre Society performed Asghar Wajahat’s [email protected] , directed by Sumit Bera, at many national and state level competitions winning accolades at institutions like IIT Ropar and IIT Roorkee. The play was also performed at the famous Kamani
Auditorium as a part of SahityaKalaParishad’s “Mahavidyalaya Naatya Samaaroh.” Aman was selected to perform the play at the prestigious Old World Collegiate Theatre Festival organised at the India Habitat Centre. It had two houseful ticketed shows thus adding another feather in its cap.
Ms. Hridyanshi Toor won the Best Actor award for her performance in the play at IIT Ropar.
Aman performed its second production, ‘Liyaqat’, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy King
Lear, directed by Zeeshan Khan at the Shakespeare Society of India’s National Drama Competition.
The performance won award for the Best Production, while Alyasa Abbas won the Best Actor award and Nikhita Khurana won the award for Best Supporting Actor. It also received two rolling trophies for winning the competition a record five times. The Department of English of our college invited Aman to stage the play at their International Students’ Conference.
The members of the society participated and rendered commendable performances in other events as well. Mr. Vishava Prakash won special mention for mono-acting at PGDAV(E)’s fest; Ms. Lalita
Patel bagged first prize at IIT Roorkee and third at IIT Bombay at National Level Competitions in
Freestyle Solo Dancing.
Dhanak : The Western Dance Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College is amongst the most well- known societies in the University of Delhi. The objective of the society is to provide platform to dynamic students to showcase and polish their talents.
This year, Dhanak prepared three different group performances choreographed by Mohit Gupta.
These groups participated in different national level competitions including prestigious institutions such as IIT Roorkee and IIT Bombay. Their performance won the second prize at IIT Roorkee. The performances were also given at various colleges of University of Delhi, successfully making it to the finals of many competitions and winning at colleges like B.R. Ambedkar College and Zakir
Husain Delhi College (Evening). The team also debuted at the Delhi Dance Fever making it to the final round, a rare feat for a debutant team.
Continuing the success, the group members obtainedindividual prizes in inter-college as well as national level competitions. Ms. Nishtha secured first position at Ambedkar University, in addition to podium finishes at PGDAV college and Ram Lal Anand College. She also made it to the core team of Mental Health Festival organized at AIIMS. Ms. Shailja secured third position at PGDAV college, and gave her Kathak dance performance at the Kamani Auditorium. Mr. Ashwin and Ms.
Nishtha performed at the Red Festival organized by a queer youth alliance and social advocacy group ‘Nazariya’. Ms. Nishtha and Ms. Shailja won multiple prizes at the University of Delhi colleges as well as Mental Health Festival (AIIMS).
Dhwanik : The Classical Music Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College is one of the oldest and most admirable societies of the college and enjoys considerable reputation in the music circles in
University of Delhi.
This year Dhwanik composed four classical ragas- RaagBhupali , RaagDesi , RaagSurMalhar , and
RaagMiyaMalhar . The group participated in the national competition at IIT Kanpur in addition to
other inter-college contests in University of Delhi. The outstanding performances of Mr. Nabeel, a skilled Sarangi player and Mr. Daksh, a gifted classical singer brought remarkable recognition to the society. They won as many as twenty-four prizes at the college together with state and national level competitions. Mr. Devesh Bisht and Mr. Sargam Boruah gave individual performances in
University of Delhi colleges.
Suchitra : The Fine Arts Society, founded this year, has already made its presence felt in the fine arts community of the University. In addition to making regular contributions in various college events like NSS events the society participated in various intra-college projects coupled with engagements at IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay. The members of the society were nurtured and inspired by this extensive exposure. Mr. Amit Gupta, Mr. Ankur Raman, Ms. Monika Rawat, Ms. Javi
Gautam, Mr. Nitish Kumar Bharti and Mr. Tejas have won prizes in competitions as diverse as
‘making art out of waste’, ‘wall painting,’ ‘dress making out of waste’ among many others.
Nrityathi : The Classical Dance Society is another new addition to Arts and Culture Society of the college. The Society currently consists of six committed classical dancers of varied backgrounds including Odissi, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Bharatanatyam and Kuchuppudi, working under the guidance of Ms. Shabana Azami and the society coordinators from the Arts and Culture core group.
Nrityarthi’s first performance was at the Independence Day celebrations of our college. It went on to perform at the Mental Health Festival at Jawahar Lal Nehru Auditorium, AIIMS, and IIT
Roorkee. Ms. Lakshmi Priya (Bharatanatyam), Ms. Chandhana S. Anand (Kuchipudi), Ms. Ayushi
Kashyap (Bharatanatyam), Ms. Anisha Mukherjee (Odissi) and Ms.Abhirami have performed at various University of Delhi college fests.
Illume : The Western Music Society is the third new addition that was made in this session. The name is short for ‘Illuminate’. Though still in its nascent stage, the society has experimented with
numerous styles of western music viz. Rap, Rock and Pop, Western Classical, Jazz and Acapella, thus providing the much-needed diversity on the musical front. The members of the society performed at IIT Roorkee, Gargi College, IIT Delhi and Aryabhatta College.
B. A. Programme Society
Convenor: Mohd Arif
B.A. Programme Society organized their fest Ibtada on 8th and 9th March 2019. Dr. Atmesh
Kumar Department of Psychiatry, St Stephen’s Hospital was invited as the chief guest, who delivered a lecture on “Mental Health: Demystifying Depression.” Some more events like G.K. quiz, Poster making, best out of waste, Ethnic Fashion walk, Mehandi competition, solo singing, solo dancing were conducted. Besides this presentations on different topics related to their subjects were also given by the students.
Botany Society: Nargis
Convenor: Ms. Devayani Muley
The inaugural lecture of Botanical Society Nargis was held on 17th Sept 2018. Prof. Paramjit
Khurana, Head Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi, delivered a talk on "
Role of Plant: Biology Under Changing Climatic Conditions”. Our students got to interact with
Prof. Paramjit Khurana and cleared their queries for future research involvement. The society organised its annual festival “Blossom” on 8th March 2019.The various events held during the festival were Botanical Rangoli , leaf art, plant sketching and “Just a Minute”. The botanical society
"Nargis" also organised an environment quiz for Dr. Virendra Kumar Rolling Trophy on 8th March
2019 for creating awareness regarding the role of environment and its protection.
Career Counselling and Placement Cell
Convenor: Dr. Dhiraj Kumar Singh
Career Counselling and Placement cell of the college commenced its activities in the academic session 2018-19 with an Orientation Program and motivational talks by renowned speakers.
Subsequently, the Cell organized many activities throughout the year. The cell received tremendous response in the Job Fair'19 with a footfall of more than 2000 students from across the colleges of
University of Delhi. The fair provided students with jobs and internships in high standing companies like Wipro, TATA Power, Concentrix, ICICI Bank, IDBI Federal, HealthMug, CNCS
Infotech, Saisons Global Consultancy to name a few. These companies offered opportunities varied in scope to the students. The cell also invited many startups and NGOs to assimilate the spirit of social responsibility amongst the students. Seminars were organised and workshops conducted during the academic session 2018-19 to polish the skills and enhance the personality of each and every student in order to prepare them for the future endeavours.
Debating Society
Convenor: Dr. Aftab Alam
The Debating Society commenced the new academic session with its audition and freshers’ welcome/debate competition. The Debating Society successfully organized the Second Zakir
Husain Memorial Parliamentary Debate Competition from 23-25 February 2019 where teams from more than 40 colleges/universities participated. It also organized another prestigious Annual
Parliamentary Debate Competition (in English), Ikhtilaf , from 18-20 March 2019 which witnessed a participation from 36 colleges/universities . Like every year, our students participated in several debate competitions at state, national and international levels and won various prestigious
awards/prizes at IIT, Kirori Mal College, Lady Sriram College, Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh
Muslim University, Doon University, Hansraj College, Daulat Ram College, Mata Sundari College,
Gandhi Smriti, National Gandhi Museum, Khalsa College, Swami Shraddhanand College, Shyama
Prasad Mukherjee College, Ramjas College, Kalindi College, Gargi College, and Delhi College of
Arts and Commerce. Subsequently, the society also invited resource persons from different fields to deliver lectures on issues of national and global importance.
Enabling Unit: Hum Honge Kamyab
Convenor: Dr. Ragesh P.R
Hum Honge Kamyab , the Enabling Unit of Zakir Husain Delhi College began its activity with
Freshers’ welcome in the month of September, 2018. The annual fest of the society ‘Utsav’ was organized on 15 March 2019. The function was inaugurated with a motivational lecture by Dr.
Santosh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Aditi Mahavidyalya, University of Delhi. The lecture was followed by various inter-college competitions like singing, dancing, quiz and talent hunt. These competitions provided platform for showcasing the talents of differently abled students to the larger student community in the college. Apart from providing opportunity to the differently abled students to engage in extra-curricular activities, the Enabling unit also sensitise the youth on the daily challenges and needs of the differently abled students. It helps to promote the spirit of assimilation in the students’ community.
Gandhi Study Circle
Convenor: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar
With its primary objective to discover the relevance of Gandhi’s philosophy and to spread the message of Gandhi especially among the youth and society Gandhi Study Circle held many public events and activities during the academic session 2018-19.
To mark the 100th birth anniversary of Nelson Mandela, a Public Lecture on “Nelson Mandela in the Footsteps of Gandhi: Centenary Tributes” was organized by Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti
(GSDS) in collaboration with Zakir Husain Delhi College.
The society conducted an Orientation Programme on July 31 st , 2018 where the panel discussed the
"Relevance of Gandhi in the Contemporary World.” The programme was followed by an election of the office bearers. An interactive workshop on “Stress Management and Inter-personal Conflict
Resolution” was organized for the students on July 30, 2018. The workshop was conducted by
Shri Atul Priyadarshi an expert trainer from Patna. During the workshop, Shri Atul Priyadarshi focussed on different aspects of stress management such as ‘individual stress’, ‘emotional stress’,
‘physical stress’, ‘behavioural stress’ and how that affects the psyche of an individual both at the workplace as well as at home.
On August 9th , 2018, Shri Kumar Prashant, an eminent Gandhian activist and Director, Gandhi
Peace Foundation was invited as a guest lecturer to speak on ‘Gandhi in Today’s India.’ On August
29, 2018, a ‘One Day Trip’ to Gandhi Darshan and Gandhi Museum was organized in collaboration with the National Gandhi Museum and Gandhi Darshan to make students familiar with the
Gandhian values and ethics. A discussion on ‘Revisiting Gandhi’s legacy: Reflection on the
question of caste and class’ was held on September 27 th , 2018. Dr. Nishikant Kolge an eminent historian and author of ‘Gandhi against Caste’ enlightened the audience with her views and opinions on the subject of Gandhi and caste.
One of the significant initiatives at bringing Gandhi closer to the youth has been the introduction of
“Charkha Spinning Classes” since 2017. With the help of Gandhian activist Mrs. Indubala,
Charkha spinning classes formally began this year from September 2018 in the college with over 30 students enrolling themselves for learning this skill.
Over a dozen students from Gandhi Study Circle participated in the two day event organized by
Gandhi Bhavan, University of Delhi to celebrate the 150 th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on
October 2, 2018. To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the society began a week-long celebration from October 3, 2018 by organising various activities including quiz competition, movie screening among others. The Circle invited the Aman theatre society of the college to perform the play [email protected] giving insight into yet another aspect of Gandhi’s life.
A group of four students from the society presented a paper on ‘Gandhian Philosophy of Non-
Violence’ in a one day seminar on ‘Confluence of Creative Expressions of Youth on Nonviolence’ organized by Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat on October 6-7, 2018.
On January 30 th , 2019, the society scheduled a Gandhi Samvad on ‘Challenges of Nation Building’ in which eminent sociologist and social activist Prof. Anand Kumar spoke on current dilemmas confronting the nation today. Members of the society also represented Zakir Husain Delhi College
in a week long celebration ‘Gandhi week’ organized by Gandhi Bhawan, University of Delhi from
January 30 th - 5th February, 2019.
Members of the society also participated in a day-long event ‘A day with Kasturba’ , organized by
National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi on February 8, 2019. On 14-15 February 2019, the society organized its Annual Inter-College Festival. The event started off with a Gandhi Bhajan: Vaishnav
Jan To on the first day followed by a Public Lecture by Professor Madhulika Banerjee on ‘Aaj Ke
Gandhi.’ Several other activities including Quiz on Gandhi, debate competition and round table discussionwere held to commemorate Gandhi and his legacy in the two day event. The major attraction of the fest was the charkha display where the volunteers displayed charkha and acquainted other students with the operation and importance charkha . The fest concluded with the prize distribution ceremony and the resolve to carry forward the message of Gandhi.
GARDEN COMMITTEE
Convenor: Dr Malti Gupta
The college participated in the 61st Annual Delhi University Flower show held on March 1st 2019, under several categories and groups, displaying seasonal flowering plants, perennial foliage plants, cacti & succulents, bonsai, hanging baskets, cut flowers and flower decorations along with the college herbal ,rose and Rock gardens. All these plants are raised from fresh stocks every year in the college gardens itself. Under female student category, large number of enthusiasts participated and excelled in winning in most of the categories. The college won several prizes, including ten cups from all over the entries. Honourable Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi, Professor J.
P. Khurana gave away all the prizes. College Herbal garden, Rose and Rock gardens were
adjudged second best in the league. All this has been largely possible due to the hard and sincere efforts of our gardeners, under the guidance of Garden Committee members throughout the year.
Girls’ Association: Aasmi
Convenor: Dr Devyani Muley
The inaugural lecture of Aasmi was delivered by Dr Runvijay, the chief instructor of Karma Spark on the topic Good Health-A Key to Happiness” on 3rd Oct 2018 on.” An icebreaker "let's know us” was organised for the freshers where they got the opportunity to showcase their talents.
A talent hunt 2019 was organised on 15 Feb 2019 in which various events were like Mehandi,
Singing, Flameless cooking, solo and group dance, and ethnic fashion show Tarz-e libaaz were held. On 20th Feb 2019, Girl's association in collaboration with placement cell of Zakir Husain
Delhi College conducted a workshop and talk on "Know your Rights” (Ab samjhouta nah i) with
ITC vivel. It was an interactive and enthusiastic workshop.
The Internal Complaints Committee
Convenor: Ms. Nagma Zafir
The ICC worked efficiently and conscientiously towards its goal of resolving issues related to gender discrimination in the session 2018-19 under the guidance of Ms. Naghma Zafir. It worked in collaboration with the NGO Saheli and held Orientation programmes on rules and regulations related to gender discrimination. The ICC also organised talks by eminent experts in this area like
Advocate Zeba Khair, a Supreme Court lawyer to disseminate information about laws related to gender issues and the legal position of the ICC in these matters.
National Cadet Corps (NCC)
Convenor: Dr. M. M. Raheman
National Cadet Corps is a tri-services organization, comprising the Army, Navy and Air Force, engaged in grooming the students into disciplined and patriotic citizens. It is a voluntary organization wherein cadets are recruited from diverse backgrounds and are given basic military training in small arms and parades.
The NCC unit of Zakir Husain Delhi College is the heart of the 7th battalion, Delhi, Group “C”. The
College unit consists a total of 160 cadets and is one of the highest strength holding college units in the entire University of Delhi. The NCC unit functions under the guidance and commendable leadership of Capt. (Dr.) M.M.Raheman, Associate NCC Officer, Zakir Husain Delhi College.
In the academic session 2018-2019, the cadets attended various local and national events. Six of our candidates participated in the Republic Day camp. Six cadets including Junior Under Officer (JUO)
Saurabh, Cadet Gaurav Sisodia, Cadet Sanjeev Dahiya, Cadet Ritik Raj, Cadet Ankur Malik, Cadet
Vishal Singh represented the college and the Delhi Directorate at the Republic Day Camp final as well as at the Prime Minister’s Rally.
Thirty of our NCC cadets also participated in the Army Attachment Camp held at Meerut Cantt. In this camp, the cadets are trained by the instructors of a particular regiment, in military tactics including day/night warfare wherein the cadets also get the opportunity to get familiar with the weaponry. Our cadets were trained under the guidance and supervision of JCOs of the 274 field regiment (artillery). The College was led by Junior Under Officer (JUO) Ubais and Senior Under
Officer (SUO) Raju as 7DBN senior and college senior respectively.
Three of our cadets were selected to attend the Advanced Leadership Camps (ALC) this year too.
These camps are conducted twice a year and attended by many cadets from all over the country to learn leadership skills, focus on personality development and orientation for induction into the armed forces. Junior Under Officer (JUO) Himanshu Khewaria attended the ALC II held at
Coimbatore, representing the Delhi directorate. He was one of the four cadets selected from the
Delhi directorate.
Two of our cadets-Senior Under Officer (SUO) Munish Rana and Junior Under Officer (JUO)
Deepak were selected to attend the ALC-III held at Ahmedabad. Senior Under Officer (SUO)
Munish Rana was selected as directorate senior 2IC, (Delhi Directorate) who also bagged the All
India 2nd Rank in the mock SSB tests conducted in the camp.
Six cadets from our college were selected for the guard of honor and wreath laying ceremony at
Amar Jawan Jyoti while nine cadets were part of quarter guard. Senior Under Officer (SUO)
Munish Rana was selected as the All India Guard Commander.
In Combined Annual Training Camps (CATC), the boys (Senior and Junior Division) and girls
(Senior and Junior Wing) of the NCC unit participated in the 15-day camp. In these camps, classes are conducted as per the given syllabus wherein the cadets are once again instructed in certain aspects of NCC training. The camp acts as a refresher training programme for the cadets where they are also trained in basic skills of survival and emergencies. They are given lessons in skills pertaining specifically to their Wing. Another activity in the camp is the "dogwatch" where two cadets are to stay on sentry duty for two hours at any given time of the day. Those caught sleeping, especially during late night or early morning shifts, or otherwise missing from duty are severely reprimanded or penalized. Cadets are also introduced to weapons such as a .22 caliber rifle.
Seventy-five of our cadets attended the camp led by Senior Under Officer (SUO) Munish Rana And
Senior Under Officer (SUO) Raju Kumar Singh.
This session also witnessed our cadets participating in several National Integration Camps (NIC) held in various parts of the country. National Integration Camp (NIC) is to propagate national integration among cadets and the society. Only the best cadets in drills and march are sent to represent their States. These camps are conducted on All India basis and help bridge the cultural gap among various States of India. Our cadets utilized the opportunity to gel with other cadets of the directorate and to share cultures to inculcate a feeling of oneness among themselves. Only three cadets were selected from Delhi Directorate and all three of them were from our college. Cadet
Rajat Kumar led the Delhi Directorate contingent in the camp.
The Thal Sainik Camp (TSC) is a 12 days camp conducted in Delhi every year in the late autumn, in which the cadets are selected from all 17 directorates. The selected cadets then are sent to the
TSC to represent their respective directorates in competitions such as: Obstacle course, firing, map reading and home nursing. This year four of our cadets, Cadet Prabhat Thapa, Cadet Yogesh Malik,
Cadet Ankur Malik and Senior Under Officer (SUO) Sahib Rana attended the Pre TSCs and reached the TSC Final bringing laurels to our college.
NCC also participated in the All India Ganga Trek for the benefit of the cadets. The camp included adventurous in addition to some recreational activities. Eleven cadets from our college attended the camp led by SUO Sahib Rana. Our cadets won several competitions in the camp.
Our teams for the quarter guard, drill and best cadet competition participated in the NCC fests of several colleges and won first prizes in most of the events.
NCC also administered community services and ran awareness drives during the session. Post demonetisation, NCC organised an awareness drive regarding cashless transaction. Our cadets along with Capt.(Dr.) M.M.Raheman visited areas such as the New Delhi Railway Station, Ajmeri
Gate, Turkman Gate and nearby colonies, where the cadets informed people about how to use e- currency to pay for their daily needs. The cadets also took up the work of cleaning the vicinity like
Turkman Gate, the college premises under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan . They also instructed and inspired the residents of the areas to keep their surroundings neat and clean. This year our 85 cadets participated in the International Day of Yoga spreading the message of living a life full of physical, mental and spiritual happiness. The cadets relayed the message of attaining a healthy and happy life by adopting yoga as a part of the daily routine.
Yet another major attraction of NCC was the 20th annual NCC Fest Salute 2019 organised on 2nd of March. The fest was inaugurated by the honourable chief guest Ms. Suman Goyal IPS,
Additional CP Of Delhi, Delhi Police,Special Branch. She did the inspection of teams from different colleges of Delhi University. The fest witnessed an enthusiastic response.
National Service Scheme (NSS)
Convenor: Dr. Swati Aggarwal
The National Service Scheme Unit of Zakir Husain Delhi College took an initiative on 21 June,
2018 to celebrate International Yoga Day in the college campus. This initiative was the stepping stone for making Yoga a daily practice. During the admission process of Academic Year 2018-19,
NSS Volunteers guided the Freshers in their admission procedures through help desk from 19th
June, 2018 to 15th July, 2018.
In the month of August, NSS unit conducted Oath Ceremony on Corruption, Cleanliness Drive and
Flag Distribution Ceremony. Students also undertook an election cleanliness drive during the Delhi
University Student Union Elections.
NSS Orientation Programme was held on 28 th September 2018 where 400 students enrolled themselves. Mrs Nancy Juneja graced the programme with her presence and motivated the students with her inspiring speech. ‘Raddi’ Collection Drive and Diwali Mela were organized from 30th
October, 2018 to 1st November. The NSS volunteers distributed clothes and sweets to the children of Rajender Ashram and engaged them in entertaining activities and games keeping up with the spirit of celebration of Diwali Festival.
The year 2019 opened with participation of NSS volunteers in the Book Fair organized by National
Book Trust from 4th January, 2019 to 13 th January, 2019. On 25 th January, 2019 National Voters
Day was celebrated with the objective to inform students about their voting rights and duties. The
NSS volunteers attended the Mock Poll on 16 th February, 2018 organised by the District Election
Officer to create awareness amongst the voters along wit demonstration of EVM and VVPAT.
On the fourth Annual Youth Convention on 19 th February, 2019 the NSS unit got a wonderful opportunity to interact with Mr. Desh Raj (National Youth Icon Awardee, 2019) ; Mr. Harshit
Gupta ( National Youth Awardee and founder of Womenite); Mr. Niraj Gera ( life Coach,
Photographer) and Mr. Sunny Garg (founder and CEO of ‘Yourshell’). The Speakers from diverse fields narrated their experiences and graced Taarunya ’19 with their presence.
The NSS Volunteers have been avidly participating in Enabling Unit fest, the Theatre Society fest and the Annual Day in College.
Nature and Environment Society: Srishti
Convenor: Dr Ratnum Kaul Wattal
Srishti the Nature and Environment Society is for the nature lovers dedicated to the conservation of nature and the environment with their firm efforts and devotion. The activities of the society for this academic session started with the registration cum orientation program for new members. The objectives and the action plan of the society was communicated to the students. Attention was also drawn towards the recent environmental issues facing the nation and the world at large. A short presentation was shown to the members on the deteriorating condition of Yamuna River and its impact on flora and fauna.
The inaugural lecture of Srishti titled ‘Bamboo- A Green Gold’ was organised on September 12,
2018. Dr. Krishna Kumar, Scientist C, North East Centre for Technology Application and Research
(NECTAR), Department of Science and Technology (DST) was invited to deliver the lecture.
Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I) is an environmental conservation group which focuses on wildlife conservation and habitat restoration. The members of Srishti contributed in lake cleaning and habitat restoration in collaboration with Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I).
The student members also pitched in for afforestation and animal care in the Delhi region.
Srishti ran an Anti-Cracker Campaign on 1st November, 2018 to raise awareness for safe Diwali. A street play titled “Diwali toh crackers free hi honi chahiye” was performed by the members of the society on the eve of Diwali to highlight the noise and air pollution created by crackers. The society also organised a photography competition on the theme of natural beauty as a part of this campaign
On January 30th, 2019 an excursion to Sultanpur national park was organised to generate understanding of ecological system amongst the students. It was indeed a paradise and a true delight
for avid bird watchers and revival point for various ecological systems, as lots of flora and fauna were found intact. The members were acquainted to the various ecological systems like wetlands, aquatic and grassland systems. Such trips play an important role in creating awareness among the students as well as help them understand and appreciate the role of various stakeholders in protecting our environment.
Yet another campaign “say no to plastic bags” was organised in collaboration with the Gandhi
Study Circle to create awareness encourage about the hazardous effect of plastic on health and environment. In addition to it, society members had put up a stall of cloth bags to encouraged everyone to use cloth bags for everyday purpose. The special attraction were embroidered fancy cotton bags and specially designed vegetable shopping cotton bags. Members also discouraged people from using plucked and cut flowers and promoted use of small potted plants. Lots of college students and teachers from the college visited the stall.
Srishti held a quiz competition ‘Quintessence,’ in association with Quiz Society of the college, and online poster making competition on the topic “Rising Landfills and its Consequences on
Environment.”
An inter-college paper reading competition on “Consumerism and Sustainable Development” was held on February 7th , 2019. The society maintained a wall magazine on various environmental issues.
The student members maintained a wall magazine with latest themes related to environmental issues. The members also contributed articles poems, cartoons and travelogues on nature excursions in their annual magazine Srishti.
Northeast Students Counselling and Welfare Cell
Convener: Bidhan S Laishram
Democracies are founded upon a respect for difference, dissent and diversity. In the spirit of this belief, the Northeast Students Counselling and Welfare Cell organized its annual festival,
Kaleidoscope – Celebrating Diversity: Upholding Traditions on 5 March, 2019. Renowned political psychologist, Dr. A. Bimol Akoijam from the Centre for Studies in Social Systems, Jawaharlal
Nehru University graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. He spoke on the theme of the body and identity of individuals, collectives and nations. The occasion also served as a platform for students to showcase their individual talents as well the as the rich cultural practices of the Northeastern peoples in a spectacular exhibit of the diversity of meanings and choices of life.
The society also organized a colloquium on the National Register of Citizens in collaboration with the Department of Political Science on the 20 th September 2018. Professor Monirul Hussain of the
Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia and Bonojit Hussain of Consortium of Asian
Democracy Index (CADI) led the discussions on the politics of belonging and citizenship.
Photography Society: Chimera
Convenor: Dr. Fahim Ansari
The Photography and Videography Society, Chimera started its activities by inviting fresh entries for the new academic session in August. New members were inducted in the society based on their creativity skills, knowledge of basic photography and use of DSLR and point and shoot camera.
Orientation programme for new members was organized by the president of the society, Mr.
Shivam Sharma who briefed them about the activities and code of conduct. The society organized its first photo walk at Humayun’s Tomb, followed by several others at Barakhamba Road,
Connaught Place, India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhawan and Yamuna Ghat. The members learned and practised different genres of photography from architectural to night shooting during these photowalks. Another photo tour to Naldehra, Kufri and Shimla was organized by the society in
April.
An exhibition of the photographs taken by the members was held by Nature club at Zakir Husain
Delhi College and for Model United Nation at Kirorimal College. Blink 2019 showcased the brilliant work of all members of the society. Society members also covered the Freshers programme
Department of Commerce, orientation programme of National Service Scheme and Arts and
Culture society, Inaugural function of Shrishti , two days event Tarunya organized by the NSS unit, and the 31 st Zakir Husain Memorial Football Tournament.
Chimera also had the honour of being the official covering partners at IIT Delhi fest
Rendevous2018 and covered the entire four day event. The society members also produced a critically acclaimed short documentary on the college which is available on Youtube. The annual fest of society Blink2019 , organised in March, held online and offline photo contests for the students. Chimera society was declared winner of IIT Delhi Rendevous2018 Theatrical Trailer
Movie Competition. The member of society, Mr. Jennifer Mazuamdar secured second position in the online photography competition of Hansraj College on the theme “Behind Closed Doors.”
Another member Ms. Saloni Singh won the TravelTriangle’s Instagram Travel Photography
Competition and got featured on their page while Mr. Aryan Gupta’s shot got featured in the
Annual Magazine Focus , the film and photography society of Ramjas College.
Students’ Union Advisory Committee
Convener: Dr. Aftab Alam
Students’ Union worked for the amelioration of students’ community the entire year. It organized freshers’ welcome Aaghaaz on October 15, 2019. Numerous competitive events were held for wider participation of students during freshers’ welcome. Like previous year, it co-organised and sponsored Annual Parliamentary Debate Competition. The Students’ Union also organized a special lecture by Mr. Krishan Bishnoi, IAS officer, on how to prepare for civil services. Towards the end of the session, it organized Annual College Fest Aadaab 2019 on March 12-13, 2019. Classical artist Ms. Vidya Shah, Mr. Khushal Sharma and Mr. Arman Bedil were invited to perform on this occasion. Ms. Vidya Shah left the audience mesmerised with her incredible performance.
Various competitive events were also organized including the solo singing, solo dance, group dance, ethnic wear fashion show, poster making, rangoli, mehndi and poetry amongst many others.
The events witnessed huge participation from colleges across the university.
Quiz Society: Quintessence
Convenor: Dr. Sangita Pandita
The society promotes and nurtures the spirit of quizzing through well sculpted quizzes with the objective to bring together quizzers from various colleges and universities. The society organized its annual intra-college quiz competition, "Quizathon,” on 10 th September 2018, followed by the inter- college-inter-school quiz, “Conoscenza” on 24 th October, 2018. The annual inter-college flagship event, “Chakravyuh” on 13 th &14 th February 2019, was packed with quizzes on diverse topics and was attended by quizzers from premier institutes of New Delhi. The society also organized three
quizzes in collaboration with the Nature & Environment society, the Gandhi study circle and the
Physical Science society respectively. Open quizzing sessions were organized by Quintessence team members all through the academic session to help them sharpen their quizzing and hosting skills. The team of Mr. Rohit Lohan, Mr. Naman Shrivastava and Ms. Deepshikha Goel bagged first position in Guatemala quiz organized by the Embassy of Guatemala bringing recognition to the college.
The activities of the society were wrapped up for the session with the introduction of the first inter- departmental quiz championship, the “Quizzard Cup” on 1st April 2019.
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Arabic Society “Al-Nadi Al-Arabi”
Convenor: Dr. Mohd. Qasim
The Department began the year with the Freshers’ welcome programme held on 1st August 2018.
Mr. Muhammad Faizan was declared as Mr. Freshers. Various activities such as quiz competition was also organized.
The Society organised the fourth Ghaziuddin Khan lecture titled “Arabic Language & Translation” on 30 October, 2018. Prof. S.A.Rahman, former Chairperson, Centre of Arabic & African Studies,
JNU, New Delhi was invited to deliver the lecture. Anisur Rahman, former teacher of the
Department graced the occasion as the chief guest.
Dr. Sumama Faisal, Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic, Maulana Azad National Urdu
University, Lucknow Campus delivered the second Mamlukul Ali Lecture titled “Arabic Short
Story & Communication Skills” conducted on 9th February 2019.
With the objective of promoting Arabic language in the college, Arabic Hand-Writing Competition was held on 8th November 2018. Students from different departments enthusiastically participated in this competition. Mr. Mohd. Umar of B.A. (H) Urdu, Second year; Mr. Mohd. Najmul Hoda of
B.A. (H) Arabic, Second year; Mr. Monowar Hussain Molla of B. A. (H). Arabic, Second year won
1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively.
The society also published two quarterly Wall Magazines in September 2018 and March 2019.
Besides, the society held a few competitions namely Arabic Hand-Writing Competition (08
November, 2018), General Knowledge Quiz Competition and Arabic Poetry Recitation (24 January,
2019), and Arabic Speech Competition (05 February, 2019). Mr. Md. Najmul Hoda, B.A. (H)
Arabic, Second year, Mr. Azmi Sameer from B.A. (H) Arabic, Second year, and Abdur Rahman from B.A. (H). Arabic, first year bagged the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively in general knowledge quiz competition. Mr. Arsalan Asad won the 1st prize, Mr. Abdur Raqeeb received the
2nd prize and two students – Ms. Mariyam Nafees and Mr. Abdur Rahmen bagged the 3rd prize in poetry recitation. Mr. Rafeeq Ahmad, won the 1st prize, Mr. Abdur Rahman got 2nd positions and
two students – Mr. Mohd. Jahangir and Mr. Abdur Rahim obtained the 3rd position in Arabic speech competition.
Bengali Literary Society
Convenor: Dr. Sharmistha Sen
This year the Bengali Literary Society had organized the seventh Gopa Dey Memorial lecture. The lecture on “Partition of India and Bengali literature’” was delivered by Prof. Mandira Bhattacharya of North Bengal University. The speakers shared their personal experiences of partition and its impact on Bengali literature. It was well received by the audience as the lecture highlighted the concept of unity between two communities.
Some students of the Department were awarded with Gopa Dey Memorial awards. The combined efforts of the students and the teachers of the Department made the event a great success. Ms.
Sumita Bawali of Bengali Honours, third year was declared the Best student of the Department. The students of the department also went to various colleges and won prizes for Bengali centric talent hunt and quiz contests. A student of the Department made a short film on the theme of “Language in Film.”
The Annual Magazine of the Department and the society “Varnamala”( वणϕमाला ) was taken out by the joint effort of some young teachers and students.
The Department also organised a Faculty Development Programme under the guidance of Dr.
Sharmistha Sen.
Botany Department
Convenor: Ms. Devayani Muley
The Department of Botany conducted a workshop entitled “Art of Scientific Writing and
Communication Skills” on 16 th - 23 rd July, 2018 for students, faculty members and scientists from
different colleges of University of Delhi. The Department also held a workshop on “Analytical
Instrumentation Techniques” in association with M/s SV Instrument Analytica Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon from 6th – 7th October, 2018. The students and faculty members participated in the event and got the opportunity to interact with the experts in the field.
The Department organized botanical excursion of B.Sc. (H) students to Forest Research Institute
(FRI), Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, forest area at Lachchivala, Musoorie and Eco
Park, Djanaulti from 11 th – 15 th Octobor, 2018 to familiarise the students with different types of vegetation and flora. In FRI, students saw a rich collection of plant based resources and products.
The students also visited a museum exhibiting specimens of different types of timber used, plants based products such as food, beverages, perfumeries, cosmetics so on and so forth. Wildlife
Institute of India (WII) is known for wildlife protection. It uses forensics for solving cases related to trade in animal products like hides, horns among others. Apart from this, a nature walk was organised at Mussoorie.
The Department also organized a field visit to Yakult Indian factory, Sonipat on 11 th February, 2019 for B.Sc. Botany (H) students. On 2nd March 2019, a research lab visit of B.Sc. (H) Botany 3rd year students to the lab of Prof. Arun K. Sharma, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of
Delhi, was organized by the Department to demonstrate the techniques such as plasmid DNA isolation, restriction digestion and agarose gel electrophoresis. It was an enriching experience for the students to learn the basics of recombinant DNA technology techniques. A group of seven students from B.Sc. (H) Botany of II nd and III rd year presented posters in the 106 th Indian Science
Congress held at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Jalandhar from 3rd - 7th January, 2019.
To familiarize the students with in vitro plant culture and its commercial significance, the
Department organized a workshop on “Plant Tissue Culture” during 8th – 9th March, 2019.
The Chemistry Society: Cheminucate
Convenor: Mr. Ravikant
The Chemistry Society “Chemunicate” started the season 2018-19 with the annual lecture on
“Understanding the Nature of Chemistry” by Dr. Nirupama Jamini from Department of Education,
University of Delhi on 16th August 2018.
This lecture was followed by the Departmental Fresher’s welcome on 24th August, 2018. The members of the Chemistry society pulled off the teacher’s day celebration in a unique way by presenting handmade gifts to their Gurus. The handmade pen stands and bookmarks were presented to the teachers as a symbol of gratitude and respect. This year the society took an initiative to celebrate “Green Diwali” and initiated a unique campaign of “Charity from Scratch” in which the society members assisted the road vendors in selling pens and other stationary items.
The Society emphasised on co-curricular activities to ensure harmonious personality development of its students and organised departmental tour to Mcleodganj and Trekking to Triund from 1st of
March to 5th of March, 2019 for the same.
With more than 1200 participants from all over University of Delhi, the Annual Chemistry Fest
Zusammen 2019 was successfully organized on 29th and 30th of March. Chemodian and The
Radical Scavenger were two unique games specifically designed for Chemistry Students. Prizes worth four lakh attracted students from all over the University.
This year The Chemistry Society commemorated The International Year of The Periodic Table by hanging the entire periodic table in front of the Science Block.
The Department closed the year with by bidding farewell to its final year students on 18th April,
2019.
Commerce Society
Convenor: Dr. Swati Aggarwal
The Commerce Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College works with a view to provide a package full of opportunities to those who have a hunger for brilliance. The society has always worked for the comprehensive development of the students.
The session 2018-19 commenced with Departmental Freshers’ Welcome programme. This meet strengthened the bond between freshers and their seniors. On 5th September 2018, society celebrated Teachers’ Day followed by celebration of the Diwali Mela, Sanskriti’19 in association with National Service Scheme unit of Zakir Husain Delhi College. The motto of the event was to celebrate Diwali with a social Cause. Numerous game stalls were installed which were the major attraction of the day. Along with the games, handicrafts stalls exhibiting decorative items made by the NGOs. The collection made from all the events including clothes, sweets and stationary was donated to the children sponsored by the NGOs, brightening up their Diwali.
The Annual Commerce Fest, ‘Innovision’19’ was held on 21st February 2019. Chartered
Accountant Amarjeet Chopra-former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India was invited as the Chief Guest for this year’s Commerce Society Festival. In his address to the students, he asserted the need of passion in order to achieve excellence. The fest included many events namely “Khamosh” Bid War, Bizwizard, Bol-a-Corp and Treasure Hunt. All these events not only aimed at bringing out the best skills of the participants but also provide them opportunities to learn as well. Where events like Khamosh, BizWizard and Bid War challenged the knowledge and
efficiency of participants, competitions like Bol-a-Corp and Treasure Hunt saw team work and innovation from participants. To further a sense of professionalism in students an Essay Writing
Competition was held for the selection of office bearers of the Editorial Board to work on the
Commerce Magazine - WorldCom.
The Commerce Society has always encouraged its students to get themselves involved with many other activities of college. Thus the Commerce Society students were equally involved in events organised by Placement Cell and Entrepreneurship Cell of the college. Throughout the year, the society organised talks and seminars to introduce students to diverse career options after they finish their study at college. In addition to this, the society organised a trip to Dharamshala, Mcleodganj and an adventurous trek of Triund. Activities of the society were concluded with bidding farewell to the third year students.
English Literary Society
Convenor: Ms. Rashmi Govind
English Literary Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College organised a number of literary and academic activities in the academic session 2018-19. The highlight of the academic session was one-day international students’ seminar on the topic “Myth and Archetypes, and Their Workings in
Drama” organised by English Literary Society, Zakir Husain Delhi College, in collaboration with
English Literary Society, Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening) organised on 27 February 2019.
Michelle Hensley, Visiting Fulbright Specialist and founder of the theatre company ‘Ten Thousand
Things’, and Kira Obolensky, Award Winning Playwright and lecturer at University of Minnesota’s
MFA programme delivered the key-note speech. Noted theatre scholars Dr. Vinod Verma,
Associate Professor, Maharaja Agrasen College, Dr. Arjun Ghosh, Associate Professor, IIT Delhi,
and Dr. Payal Nagpal, Assistant Professor, Janki Devi Memorial College chaired and also judged different panels of the seminar. There were three panels in the seminar: Thematic Explorations,
Working with Gender, and Interface with Technology and the Contemporary World. Students from
University of Delhi, Ashoka University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and other universities presented papers in the seminar. A total of 11 papers were presented in the seminar. S. Sneha Roy
Choudhury from Jawaharlal Nehru University bagged the first prize in the M Phil and PhD category for her paper “Death of a Performative Myth: A Study of Sri Krishna Parijatha of North
Karnataka”. Iqra Raza won the best paper award in BA and MA category for her paper titled “A disaster dramatized: Appropriation of the apocalyptic myth in Post 9/11 TV drama and the potentiality of the stereotypes to become archetypes”.
Rhapsody’19, the annual literary festival of English Department was held on 26 February 2019. The annual festival featured a panel discussion on “Activist Theatre: Challenges Today”. Renowned theatre experts Mr. Sanjay Kumar, actor and director Pandies Theatre, Mr. Arvind Gaur, founder of the theatre group Asmita Mr. Sudhanva Deshpande, actor and director at JANAM, and Ms.
Sanyukta Saha, founder of the theatre group Aaghaz were invited to speak on this topic. Other literary events such as script-writing competition, micro tales, poetry presentation, declamation, and popular culture quiz were the attractions of the fest.
History Society: Udanta
Convenor: Dr. Saba Khan
Udanta , the History Society, organized a number of functions in this academic session. On 16th
February a students’ went on a trip to Hampi and Hyderabad. On 2nd of April, the students went on a study tour to Fatehpur Sikri and Agra Fort. An excursion to national museum and Qutub Minar
was also undertaken.
A seminar on career orientation was organised by the Society. Mr.Pankaj Yadav, an IPS officer and
Ms. Ira Singhal, an IAS officer provided the students with valuable inputs. Mr. Ehtesham, another invited speaker, gave a talk on career in law and Lt Col on career in army while Dr Snigadha Singh gave a talk on Feudalism. The students were an active part of these events. Dr. Raheman and other colleagues provided critical inputs.
Life Science Society Report
Conveners: Dr. Ragesh P. R, Dr. Tabassum Jehan, Dr. Jyoti Singh.
The society began its activities with an inaugural lecture-cum- fresher's welcome programme on
24th September 2018. Dr. Ishtiyak Ahmed, Education Officer, Conservation Education Center and
Asola Bhatti from Wildlife Sanctuary, Tughlakabad, New Delhi, were invited to deliver a lecture on
“Importance of Biodiversity”. The audience was completely captivated by the sheer passion and range of information presented in the lecture. The lecture was followed by the fresher's welcome party. The society organized its annual fest 'Chemobology' on 28th February 2019 and concluded its activities with the farewell function of third year students on 8th April 2019.
Mathematical Society
Convenor: Pradeep Kumar
The Department of Mathematics organized a talk on February 2, 2019 on “The Philosophy of
Eienstein’s Life And S.truggle” by renowned scientist Professor Soumitro Banerjee. On April 1, the department organized a Lecture on "Mathematics In Medicine" by Professor C.S Lolita, Head department of mathematics, university of Delhi.
Persian Society
Convenor: Dr. Faraha Adeeba
The society organized a Lecture by Dr.Mehmood Fayyaz on March 1st, 2019 on Indo-Persian
Literature. A Two day international seminar titled “hind wa Iran main dastan nawisi” was also organized from April 25-26,2018.
Physical Education and Sports
Convenor:Ms. Sayema Ahmed
In the Inter-college Football Championship organised by Delhi University Sports Council (DUSC), college football team reached the finals. In a close match played under heavy rains at the Rugby
Ground of the University of Delhi, the team lost to SRCC (1-2), winning the second prize. Two members of the football team, Mr. Mujtaba Khan from B.A (H) Political Science 3rd year and
Mr.Sahil Kumar of B.A. (H) Sanskrit 1st year played for the Delhi State in the North Zone Santosh
Trophy and qualified for the National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy. Earlier two of our players, Mr.Rahul Sirari and Mr.David represented University of Delhi in the North Zone Inter
University Football Championship held at Ludhiana in December 2018.
This year Department of Physical Education and Sports organised the 31st edition of Zakir Husain
Memorial Football Tournament from 1st to 9th February 2019, on knock out basis. It was held at
Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi in which 16 teams from different colleges and universities in and around Delhi NCR participated. Dr. Masroor Ahmad Beg, Principal, Zakir Husain Delhi College, inaugurated the tournament. Dr. Shahji Prabhakaran, President of Delhi Soccer Association was the
Chief Guest and Dr. Jaswinder Singh, Principal of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College,
University of Delhi was the Guest of Honor. The trophy was won by Motilal Nehru College
(Evening) while College of Vocational Studies bagged the second prize. Both the finalists were given rolling trophies as well as mementos and individual prizes.
The College Volleyball team won Delhi Technological University tournament Aahvahan, Krishna
Engineering College sports tournament, Infinito 2019. During the course of the tournament our team defeated Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Shyamal College, Motilal Nehru College, Bhim Rao
Ambedkar College and P.G.D.A.V College. The team entered semi-finals of Inter College
Volleyball Competition organized by Delhi University Sports Council (DUSC) and played semi- finals against Shri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College (SGTB) where the team gave its best yet lost by a narrow margin. Mr. Mohd. Saleem from B.A (H) Hindi 3rd year, Mr. Masrur Alam and Mr.
Suhail Raza, both from B.A (H) Hindi 1st year have been selected for Youth National. Mr. Mohd.
Saleem from B.A (H) Hindi 3rd year was also awarded the best player in Delhi region. Mr. Rahul
Yadav from B.Sc Physical Science 1st year played in sub junior nationals. Some of our other players also played in UP State championship.
The Table tennis players of the college excelled in their performances this year. The Boys team participated and won in tournaments held at IIT Kanpur and BITS Goa . They secured the runner up position in the tournament organized by Rukmani Devi Institute Of Advance Studies. In
Athletics, Mr. Aman Kumar Jha won several medals in open tournaments and secured second position in Decathlon in Inter College Athletics Meet organized by DUSC.
The Judo team performed well this year. The College Boys team, consisting of Mr.Abhinay
Kumar, Mr. Suryansh Thakur, Mr.Alok Pandey and Mr.Vardhan, was overall champions in Inter
College Judo Tournament organized by Delhi University Sports Council (DUSC), winning five gold medals. Our 4 judokas were selected for All India Inter University held at GNDU, Amritsar.
Ms.Nikita won silver medal and Ms.Sapna and Ms.Kalpana won bronze medal in Inter College
Judo championship. The Girls’ chess team participated in many tournaments and performed well.
Physical Science Society: Physciumonati
Convenor: Dr. Seema Rawat
Activities of the Physical Science Society Physciumonati took off by constituting the committee for the session 2018-2019. Mr Sagar and Mr Avnish Ola from final year was elected as the President and Vice President respectively, while Mr Nitin from second year was elected for the post of the treasurer. New students were welcomed in the Fresher's programme held on 27 th August 2018 in the college auditorium. In the even semester the annual function of the society Enigma-3 was organized in which students from different departments also participated. The Department Farewell was organised on 9th April, 2019.
Political Science Society - Avaam
Convenor: Dr. Uma Shankar
Academic year 2018-19 started with successful completion of the admission process. This year faculty members of the Department of Political Science have been at the forefront of college’s corporate life. Many teachers were part of various committees and societies of the college including committees like Library committee, Students’ Union Advisory Committee, Proctorial Board and societies like Art and Culture Society, Debating Society North-East Students’ Welfare and
Counselling Cell, Enabling Unit and Gandhi study circle etc. Apart from this, faculty members have also been active in presenting papers at national and international level.
The Department conducted many events in this academic year starting with Avaam – the Political
Science society – elections in which President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary were elected by the students, from 3rd, 2nd and 1st year respectively. The society includes all students and teachers and makes sure that various activities of the department are conducted smoothly.
This year Awaam held three lectures. Professor P. Kesava Kumar, from Department of Philosophy,
University of Delhi delivered a lecture on ‘Issues in Understanding the Philosophy of
Ambedkar’.On 22nd January 2019 Dr. Nitasha Kaul from University of Westminster spoke on
‘Kashmir: Gender and Resistance’. Roshan Kishore, editor, Data and Political Economy in
Hindustan Times discussed complexities of elections and public opinion by ‘Analysing Electoral
Outcomes and Understanding Public Opinion’ on 24 th January.
Apart from these lectures, Avaam in collaboration with North East students’ welfare and
Counselling Cell organized a seminar on ‘Assam: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the
Question of Citizenship by Prof. Monirul Hussain from Jamia Milia Islamia and Bonojit
Hussain. Awaam also organised a book discussion with Professor Neera Chandhoke on her book
‘Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance: Anxieties of Coexistence’.
This year’s theme for Awaaz – magazine of the society – was ‘Democracy and Freedom.’ Students also successfully conducted departmental annual festival, Abhivyakti, which was held on 26th
March 2019. Students participated in competitions like poem recitation, essay writing, slogan writing, quiz, just a minute so on and so forth.
Psychology Department: Psychedelics
Convenor: Dr. Gulgoona Jamal
The aim of Psychedelics, the Psychology Society is to take learning beyond books. In that spirit, it held several activities throughout the academic session 2018-2019. The first event rightly named as
‘Icebreaker’ was held on August 13, 2018 exclusively for the freshers to put them at ease. It was followed by their formal welcome with a Fresher’s Party on August 31, 2018.
ICAN a non-government organisation which provides palliative care to cancer patients conducted a two-day workshop for the students with an interactive program that included discussion and role play. To enhance the prospects of the final year students, a workshop for career guidance was held on October 5, 2018. It included an informative and interactive session about preparation for entrance exams for getting admission into Post-Graduate courses.
The society also organized a day long inter-college academic festival on 14 th March, 2019. The festival opened with a keynote address by the Principal, Dr. Masroor Beg. It was followed by a talk by Dr. Sujata Minhas, a Psychotherapist affiliated with AIIMS. Finally, the society activities for the academic year 2018-2019 came to an end with an emotional farewell party to bid adieu to the outgoing batch on April 03, 2019.
To support the cause of environment conservation, the Psychology Department decided to publish its magazine, entitled, ‘Psynapse’ as an E-Magazine and has uploaded the same on the college website.
With all its events and activities the society hopes to take its department, which is the oldest department of Psychology in University of Delhi, to new heights in the future.
Sanskrit Literary Society
Convenor: Dr Saraswati
Department of Sanskrit organised Sanskrit Sambhashan Shivir (workshop for language teaching learning and speaking) in the college. The students from B A. Hons. Sanskrit and BA programme participated in it. The workshop spanned over a period of ten days and the students learnt the intricacies of spoken Sanskrit. The Society organized three special lectures titled “Yoga and
Health”, “European Sahitya par Sanskrit ka Prabhav” and “Computational Linguistics for Sanskrit.”
The speakers for each lecture were Dr Inder Pal Singh, Department of Physical Education, Amity
University, Dr Ranjit Mishra, Hansraj College, University of Delhi and Dr Subhas Chandra,
Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi. The students actively participated and won prizes in various inter college competitions.
The students from the department participated and won all the three prizes in competitions such as
“Shloka Recitation” held by the society. They won the first prize in Quiz Competition held at Janki
Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. They also won the second prize in Quiz Competitions organised at Vivekananda College and Hindu College and third prize each at Miranda House, IP
College for Women and Motilal Nehru College.
Department of Urdu: Bazm-e-Adab
Convenor: Dr. Mohammad Alam
Bazm-e-Adab is a cultural and literary organization of the Department of Urdu. It organizes a series of events like debate competition, ghazal recitation, essay writing, seminars and literary discussions every year.
This year in October, the Society organised Inter class events such as “Bait Bazi” and Ghazal
Recitation. In Bait Bazi, Mr. S.M. Ali Rizwi from B.A.(Hons.) Persian 3rd year, Mr. Zulqarnain,
B.A.(Hons.) Urdu 2nd year and Ms. Adeeba from B.A.(Prog.) 3rd year secured first, second and third prizes respectively. Mr.S.M. Ali Rizwi, B.A.(Hons.) Persian 3rd year and Mr. Zulqarnain,
B.A.(Hons.) Urdu 2nd year secured first and second prizes in ghazal recitation. An Inter class Urdu essay writing competition was organized on February 13, 2019. In this event, Mr. Junaid Ahmad from Persian (Hons) 1st year, Ms. Fariha from B.A.(P) 3rd year and Ms. Rubi Parveen from B.A.(H)
Urdu 3rd year won the first, second and third prizes.
The team of Bazm-e-Adab, Zakir Husain Delhi College won prizes in various Colleges. Mr. S.M.
Ali Rizwi from B.A.(Hons.) Persian 3rd year won First Prize in ghazal recitation in Kirori Mal
College, Mata Sundari College and Zakir Husain Evening College. The College secured second position in “Bait Bazi” in Jashn-e-Virasat Urdu 2018 organized by Urdu Academy Delhi.
Bazm-e-Adab organised inter-college “Bait Bazi” and Ghazal recitation on March 7, 2019. The college team comprising Mr. S.M. Ali Rizwi, Mr. Zulqarnain and Ms. Adeeba won the second prize “Bait Bazi.” In Ghazal Recitation, Mr. S.M. Ali Rizwi, Ms. Nida Zaheer from Dyal Singh
College and Mr. Fazulrahman from Jamia Millia Islamia secured first, second and third prizes respectively.
Zoological Society: Inheritance
Convenor: Dr. Debjani Mukhopadhyay
The activities of the Society started with the inaugural lecture by Prof. Suman Kundu, Head,
Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi on “Interesting Advances on Hemoglobins:
Beyond the Book.” The inaugural talk was followed by a formal welcome to the new students . The students of the society maintained the “Wall Magazine” including scientific articles on the graveness of environmental pollution, plastic waste, micro-plastics menace to the seas and oceans.
The magazine also included the contributions of Nobel laureates of the current year and their contributions to science. In the last week of October, an excursion trip was organized to Raja Ji
National Park situated in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
Later in the year, the Department organized its Annual Zoological Fest ‘Zoomerang’ wherein many different competitive events for students of the college were organised successfully. Some such events included “Flameless Cooking”, “Blind Fold”, “Sync-in”, and “Colorama”- the scientific poster making competition of the Department. These events were all inclusive and included both the teaching and the non-teaching staff. The fest ended with the distribution of prizes and certificates to the victorious candidates.
The events and activities of the Zoological Society for the current academic year 2018-19 concluded with a ceremonial “bidding adieu” in a farewell function with best wishes for the outgoing batch.
Individual
Achievements
Department of Arabic
Mohd. Qasim
Presented a paper in national seminar organised by Department of Arabic, University of Delhi.
Presented a paper in national seminar organised by Department of Arabic, Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi.
Naseem Ahmad
Presented a paper in a two day seminar held in the department of Arabic, University of Delhi.
Abdul Malik
Published a paper titled “The Role of the Arabic Teachers of Old Delhi College in Promotion of
Urdu Language and Literature”in “Shama-e- Hayat” of Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening).
S. M. Tariq
Published an article titled “Children’s Arabic Literature in India” in an International journal.
Presented papers in three national seminars and participated in one international conference, and has been invited for a “Children’s Book Reading Workshop”.
Amir Jamal
Published a Research Paper entitled "Jibran Khalil Jibran and Spirits.”
Presented a paper in the Two-Day National Seminar on "Arabic Scholars of Delhi and their
Academic Contributions" held on 29-30 January 2019 at Department of Arabic, University of Delhi.
Participated in one day National Workshop on Voice Culture and Voice Modulation organised by
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi on 7th March 2019.
Department of Chemistry
Sangeeta Pandita
Hass been instrumental in signing an agreement with Jagriti Waste Paper Recycling Services.
Attended Faculty Development Programme on ‘Climate Smart Governance’ at Indian Institute of
Public Administration, New Delhi from 25th June to 6th July 2018.
Delivered lecture and demonstration on “Environment Friendly Innovation in Organic Chemistry
Laboratory” in DST sponsored Faculty Development Programme on 8th August 2018 at
Venkateswara College.
Department of Commerce
Abdul Wahid Farooqi
Received award for “Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education” from South Asia Management
Association,
Received “International Award for Teachers with Higher Potential” from Research Foundation of
India.
Received “Bharat Ratna Dr. Abdul Kalam Gold Medal Award” from Global Economic Progress
Research Association, Chennai.
Chaired a session in 1st International Digital Conference on modern Business Management and
Social Science-2018 at Linton University College, Malaysia held on 12-13th Dec. 2018.
Presented a paper entitled “Digital Financial Inclusion India” an exploratory study on one day
International Multidisciplinary Conference Organized by Clara’s College of Commerce, University of Mumbai on 16th March 2019.
Presented a paper entitled ‘Emerging Trends in Pedagogy of Commerce in University Level organized by L.S.R Mahila P.G. College, Mirzapur (UP) on 22-23rd September 2018.
Invited as a resource person in one day International Conference organized by Shivalik College of
Engineering.
Invited as a resource person in one day International Conference Organized by H.P Mahila
Mahavidyalaya, Jabalpur (M.P) on 8th June 2018.
Department of Economics
Shirin Akhter
Received a Minor Research Project from ICSSR on “The Manufacturing Sector’s Employment: Role of Factor Endowments and Factor Market Imperfections”.
Department of Electronics
P.K.Shishodia
Published one research paper in 2018.
Supervised two research students who have been awarded their Ph.Ds in 2019.
Department of English
Mukul Chaturvedi
Published a paper “Embodiment and Agency in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Draupadi’ and Naked Protest at Kangla Fort” in the IACLALS Journal 2018.
Presented a paper titled “Impossible witness: testimony in The Age of post truth” at IACLALS
Annual Conference 2019 at University of Pondicherry, from February 6th – 8th , 2019.
Presented a paper “Centering the Margin: Dalit Women’s testimonies and Indian historiography” in an International Conference at the Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer from 15th – 16th Nov
2018.
Presented a paper titled “Reclaiming Womanhood: Sexuality, Violence and Women with
Disabilities” at the National Conference on Disability, Gender and Violence organised by centre for women’s development studies, at India Islamic Centre, New Delhi on 25 th and 26 th Feb 2019.
Abdul Hameed
Attended a faculty induction programme from Central University of Kerala in March-April 2019.
Developed a MOOC platform for Translation Studies course for the second year English (Hons.) students as part of Digital Learning initiatives.
Shraddha Adityavir Singh
Joined the Editorial Board of Lapis Lazuli - An International Literary Journal, as a Reviewer in April
2019.
Invited to read poems at the Sahitya Akademi in English and Hindi at their Nari Chetna programme held on the 26th of September 2018 .
Participated in two International Workshops
Presented a paper in a National Seminar at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Mohammed Afzal
Published a book titled “Relocating Jane Eyre: Religion and Politics in Victorian Britain”
Ruchi Singh
Interview:“The Bard on the Banks of Dulung Sings: Conversation with Jaydeep Sarangi” published in August 2018 in an online journal ‘Writers in Conversation”, Flinders University, Australia.
Book Chapter: ‘Subversion as Revenge: An Alternative Reading of Hegemonic Culture by Dalits in
India’ in Eight Faces of Revenge edited by Vibha S.Chauhan. Series: At the Interface / Probing the
Boundaries, Volume: 105. ISBN: 978-90-04-38025-7. Brill/Rodopi, Publication Date: 26
November 2018.
Department of Mathematics
Mohd. Arif
Published seven research papers in international journals and supervised one thesis.
Department of Persian
Malik Saleem
Worked as a coordinator of an International Seminar titled “Story Writing in Indo-Iran” organized by the Department of Persian, Zakir Husain Delhi College on 25th and 26th March, 2019.
Presented a paper entitled “Allama Iqbal ki Farsi Shaiyri Tareekh ke Aaine Mein” {Persian poetry of Allama Iqbal in the mirror of History} in One Day National Seminar on “Relevance of Iqbal’s
Message in Present Scenario” organised by the Department of Urdu, Satyawati College (D.U.) on
16.04.2018.
Presented a paper entitled “Hindustani Zaban Par Farsi Ke Asraat” {Effects of Persian on Indian
Languages} in Two Day International Seminar on “Persian Literature During the Later Mughals
(1707-1857) with special reference to Sufistic Literature” the Department of Persian (D.U.) from
10-11 May 2018
Presented a research paper entitled “Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khana Ka Kutub Khana” {Library of
Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khana} in the Two Day National Seminar on “Indo-Persian Literature: 17th
Century Mughal and Deccan Courts” organised by the Department of Persian (D.U.) from 27-28
November 2018.
Presented a research paper entitled “Babar Ba Hais-e-Adeeb va Adab Parvar” {Babar as an Scholar and Nourish the Literature} in the Three Day International Seminar on “Legacy of Persian
Literature in 15th and Early 16th Century A.D.” organised by the Institute of Persian Research,
A.M.U., Aligarh from 21-23 February 2019.
Department of Philosophy
Rajesh KumarTripathi
Participated in a faculty development programme
Presented his paper in a national seminar.
Department of Political Science
Sanjeev Kumar
Edited a book titled “Rajniti Siddhant ki Samajh” publishedbyOrient Blackswan.
Coordinator for Global Justice Research Group by Department of Political Science, University of
Delhi in July 2018.
Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Politics, Ethics and Global Affairs, Institute of Social Sciences, and was selected as a Life Member of European Association for South Asian Studies.
Presented a paper titled “The Politics of Village Reconstruction in Bhuj”in 25th European
Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) held in Paris in July, 2018.
Ravi Ranjan
Invited to deliver a Public Lecture on Exploring Human Dignity as Human Rights: Perspectives from
Gandhi and Ambedkar, at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, BITS Pilani Dubai
Campus, September 30, 201
Presented paper on Exploring State-Daughterhood Relationship in Modern India: A Study of
Imbalanced Child at International Seminar on Maternal and Child Health in Empowered Action
Group States, Organized by A N Sinha Institute of Social Sciences Patna in collaboration with
Unicef and Tata-Cornell Institute, Cornell University, SDG’S Perspective, 5-6 April, 2019
Published a chapter titled “Inter-disciplinarity Needs to be Revisited in University Curriculum”, in
The Times of India Higher Education: A Guide to Opportunities in India and Abroad -2019, Times of India Group Publication, New Delhi
Book review of Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Market , लंदन :
पĞगुइन ,2013, in सामािजकिवमशϕ, 1(1).
Md. Aftab Alam
Contributed two book chapters and published one research paper in 2018.
Delivered lectures at various institutions including UGC Academic Staff College, JMI, New Delhi,
Delivered lecture in The University of Queensland, Brisbane, University of Montreal, University of
Ottawa, Canada, Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College, Hyderabad in 2018-19.
Chaired a session on alternative visions in International Studies at Annual Convention of ISA,
Toronto.
Received Emerging Scholar Award during Global Studies Conference at University of Granada,
Spain on July 30, 2018.
Presented research papers in various national and international conferences including the 25th
International Political Science Association, World Congress of Political Science at Brisbane,
Australia,
Presented paper at International Conference of Global Studies held at University of Granada,
Spain, Presented paper at 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) at University of Paris, France,
Presented paper in 60th Annual Convention of International Studies Association (ISA) at Toronto.
Awarded travel grant by prestigious institutions like IPSA, Australia, University of Paris, ISA,
Toronto Canada.
Santhosh J.
Participated in a round table Panel on Human Rights Violations of Minorities at the International
All Studies Association Annual Convention at Toronto, Canada.
Shabana Azmi
Contributed a chapter titled “Rudivaad” for an edited book on Political Theory.
Tripta Sharma
Invited as Discussant in 2nd Annual International Conference of the India Public Policy on panel
‘Policy Discourse Analysis: Uncovering The Politics of Knowledge’, on 6th February 2019.
Working as Co-Director of ICSSR project ‘Knowledge, Development and Politics in Post Colonial
India: Contestation in State, Market and Civil Society’
Department of Sanskrit
Deepak Kalia
Published a book titled “अůैतवशुिŵकासमालोचनामकअयन ” from J.P. Publishing House, Delhi.
Presented a paper in ‘All India Oriental Conference’, 49th Session at Shri Som Nath Sanskrit
University’, Veraval, Gujarat.
Presented a paper titled “आमOबधनंतJय ” at 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, Canada on 9th - 13th July 2018.
Department of Zoology
Anita Grover
Co-authored a book titled “Developmental Biology: Principles & Concepts”.
Librarian, Imran Khan
Published paper titled “An Introduction to the applications of cloud computing technology in academic libraries” in International Journal of Library Management and Services 4(2): pp. 15-24
(ISSN: 2349-6347).
Published a paper titled “Role of librarians in transition of libraries from conventional to smart: a strategic approach” in Baba, Abdul Majid, et al., (eds.). ‘Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference of Asian Libraries (ICAL-2018) on Building Smart Libraries: Changes, Challenges, and
Issues & Strategies (6th-8th August 2018: Srinagar). New Delhi: Asian Library Association, 2018, pp. 239-246 (ISBN: 978-81-9348-251-3).
Published chapter titled “Emerging Tools and Techniques of Information Processing and
Dissemination in 21st century and the Role of Librarian” In Saikia, Mukesh and Eqbal, Monawwer
(eds.). “Library and Information Management: recent trends and research.” published by Assam:
Intellectual Property Publications, pp. 35-51 (ISBN: 978-81-930111-3-3).
Published a book titled “A Comprehensive dictionary of useful terms in library & information science” from.Kautilya Books, New Delhi (ISBN: 978-93-87809-13-0).
Reviewer, International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology (IJIDT), ISSN:
2229-5984(P), 2249-5576(E).
Reviewer, International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2141-2537.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences (JoALS), ISSN: 2349-
4352.
Associate Editor, Journal of Advanced Research in Library and Information Science (JoARLIS),
ISSN: 2395-2172.
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Academic Research in Library & Information
Science (IJARLIS).
Co-Chairperson of a Session on Emerging & Innovative Technology Applications in Libraries held on 6th August 2018 during 3rd International Conference of Asian Libraries (ICAL-2018) on
Building Smart Libraries: Changes, Challenges, Issues & Strategies organized by Central Library,
Central University of Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir & Asian Library Association, New Delhi at
Central University of Kashmir, Jammu& Kashmir from 6th to 8th August 2018.
Organized a Public Lecture on Debating Democratic Decency by Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Former
Head, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi on 4th September 2018 at Zakir Husain
Delhi College, New Delhi under the aegis of the Zakir Husain Delhi College Library Committee.
Special Guest of Three Days National Workshop on Open Source Software Koha & D-Space organized by INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad in collaboration with Best Book Buddies, New
Delhi at INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad from 5th to 7th October 2018.
IASLIC-IGNOU Librarians’ Day on Library Professional at the Crossroads organized by Prof. G.
Ram Reddy Library, IGNOU, New Delhi in association with IASLIC, Kolkata with support of Raja
Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata at IGNOU, New Delhi on 17th September 2018.
Three Days 3rd International Conference of Asian Libraries (ICAL-2018) on Building Smart
Libraries: Changes, Challenges, Issues & Strategies organized by Central Library, Central
University of Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir & Asian Library Association, New Delhi at Central
University of Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir from 6th to 8th August 2018.
Award Selection Committee
1. Dr. Sangeeta Pandita (Coordinator) 9. Dr. Mohsineen Wazir 2. Capt. Dr. M. M. Raheman 10. Dr. A.W. Farooqi 3. Dr. Anuradha Marwah 11. Ms. Shubhra Dubey 4. Dr. Aftab Alam 12. Ms. Shoeba 5. Dr. Anushree 13. Ms. Sayema Ahmed 6. Dr. Swati Aggarwal 14. Dr. Mohd. Afzal 7. Mr. Mukesh Kr. Jain 15. Dr. Pankaj Sharma 8. Mr. Abdul Hameed P.A. 16. Ms. Ritu Mathur
Academic Merit Awards & Scholarships
1. Mr. Mukesh K. Jain (Coordinator) 2. Dr. Abdul Wahid Farooqi 3. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 4. Dr. Sunil Kumar 5. Mr. Ayaz Ahmed
List of Award Winners
Staff Awards
Retired : Mr. M. T. M. Ansari Mr. Kifayatullah Khan Mr. Tej Bahadur
Best Mali Award : Mr. Sikandar Yadav
Appreciation Award : Mr. Mohd. Zahid (Library) Appreciation Award : Mr. Som Dutt (Gest. Operator) Appreciation Award : Mr. Mohd. Aakif (Administration) Appreciation Award : Mr. Md. Afzal (Laboratories) Promising Employee Award : Mr. Abul Wafa Khan
I. Academic Merit Awards
University Toppers:
1. Abdul Bari M.A. Urdu (Final) 2. Mohammad Rizwan Raza M.A. (H) Arabic III Year 3. Mohd. Nazim B.A. (H) Persian III Year 4. Salim Akhtar B.A. (H) Arabic III Year 5. Anuradha Basu B.A. (H) Bengali III Year
Memorial Scholarships:
The Mirza Mehmood Beg Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to three undergraduate students who secure the highest percentage of marks in the college at the final year University examination. The first scholarship is for a student from the Humanities and Social Sciences stream including Psychology but excluding Mathematics:
1. (a) Shekhar Suman (W) B.A. (H) Economics III Year
The second scholarship is for a student from the Science stream including the B.A. & B.Sc. (Hons) courses in Mathematics:
2. Pappu Kalita B.Sc. (H) Chemistry III Year
The third scholarship is for a student from the Commerce stream:
3. Shivansh Agarwal B.Com. (H) III Year
Shri Narain Nigam Memorial Scholarship is awarded for the following categories of students obtaining the highest percentage of marks in the college at the second year University examination.
One Scholarship is given for a visually challenged student:
1. Kanhaiya Kumar Ray B.A. (H) Hindi II Year
One Scholarship is given to the student of the Commerce, Humanities and Social Sciences stream including Psychology and excluding B.A. (Hons.) Mathematics:
2. Parnika Sethi (W) B.A. (H) Economics II Year
One Scholarship is given to the student of the Science stream including B.A./B.Sc.(Hons.) in Mathematics:
3. Payal Rani (W) B.Sc. (H) Chemistry II Year
Ved Kumar Gupta Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a student securing the highest percentage of marks in the college at the second year B.A. Honours University examination in Political Science.
1. Aafiya Qureshi (W) B.A. (H) Political Science II Year
Kumar Shubham Memorial Scholarships are awarded to four students obtaining the highest percentage of marks in the college at the second year University examination for the following categories:
One for a student in B.A. (Hons.) Psychology: 1. Anushree Nandi (W) B.A. (H) Psychology II Year
One for a student in the Humanities and Social Sciences stream excluding psychology and B.A. (Hons.) Mathematics: 2. Maryam Nafees (W) B.A. (H) Arabic II Year One for a student in the Science stream including B.A. & B.Sc. (Hons.) courses in Mathematics: 3. Mehak Preet (W) B.Sc. (H) Chemistry II Year One for a student in the Commerce stream: 4. Mayank Jethwani B.Com. (H) II Year
ACADEMIC AWARDS
College Toppers: The following students have secured the highest percentage of marks in their class in the College in part-I of the University Examinations
Group- I (Humanities stream) NAME OF STUDENT FATHER’S NAME COURSE CLASS 01 UTKARSH KAPOOR MUKESH KUMAR (CBCS)-B.A. PROG. PART- I 02 MANJARUL ISLAM MD MOTIUR RAHMAN (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Arabic PART- I 03 MUMTAZ PARVEEN(W) S K RAHAMATULLAH (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Bengali PART -I (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 04 ANANYA THAKUR(W) RAJEEV RANJAN PART- I Economics 05 RUCHIKA VERMA(W) MANOJ KUMAR VERMA (CBCS)-B.A. (H) English PART- I 06 SADIA SHAIKH(W) SHAIKH ABDULLAH 07 ANUSHKA(W) SHRIPAL SINGH (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Hindi PART- I 08 GAYATRI PATIDAR(W) ISHWAR LAL PATIDAR (CBCS)-B.A. (H) History PART -I 09 ANAM WARSI(W) MOINUDDIN (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Persian PART- I 10 DEEPAK YADAV RAM GOPAL YADAV (CBCS)-B.A. (H) PART- I 11 KAMLESH MALI RAMLAL Philosophy (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Political 12 PRASHANT YADAV V K YADAV PART- I Sc. (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 13 ABHYUDAY BHARGAVA RISHI BHARGAVA PART- I Psychology 14 VISHAVJIT KESHAV SINGH (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Sanskrit PART- I 15 AQSA NASIR(W) MOHD NASIR (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Urdu PART- I Group-2 (Commerce stream) 16 TANISH SHARMA VIJENDER SHARMA (CBCS )-B.COM.(PROG.) PART- I ARVIND KUMAR 17 HARDIK DWIVEDI (CBCS )-B.COM.(HONS.) PART- I DWIVEDI Group -3 (Science stream) SUSHIL KUMAR (CBCS)-B.SC. (Physical 18 GAURAV DAHIYA PART- I DAHIYA Sciences) PREM PRAKASH (CBCS)-B.SC. (Life 19 JANVI GAMBHIR(W) PART- I GAMBHIR Sciences) 20 GOKUL ANIL KUMAR ANIL KUMAR A R (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) Botany PART- I (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 21 RIMPA KAR JAGAN NATH KAR PART- I Chemistry (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 22 SUHAIB KHAN MOHD SHAHID PART- I Electronics SYED YAWER HASAN (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 23 ATHER HASAN PART- I RIZVI Mathematics (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 24 SAKSHI PANWAR(W) RAVINDER PART- I Zoology
The following students have secured the highest percentage of marks in their class in the College in part-II of the University Examinations
Group- 4 (Humanities stream) NAME OF STUDENT FATHER’S NAME COURSE CLASS 25 AFREEN RAJPUT MOHAMMAD ABRAR (CBCS)-B.A. PROG. PART-II 26 ILMA(W) MOHD ZAKIR (CBCS)-B.A. PROG. PART-II 27 MARYAM NAFEES(W) NAFEES AHMED (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Arabic PART-II SWAPAN KUMAR 28 SUMITA BAWALI(W) (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Bengali PART-II BAWALI (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 29 PARNIKA SETHI(W) DHARMENDRA SETHI PART-II Economics 30 PRERNA DHINGRA(W) NAVEEN DHINGRA (CBCS)-B.A. (H) English PART-II ABHISHEK KUMAR CHANDRA KESHWAR 31 (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Hindi PART-II TRIPATHI TRIPATHI 32 NOURIN B V(W) ASHRAF T (CBCS)-B.A. (H) History PART-II 33 S M ALI RIZVI SHAH BELAL RIZVI (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Persian PART-II (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 34 PANKAJ UPADHAYA JEEVAN UPADHAYA PART-II Philosophy MOHAMMAD YUNUS (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Political 35 AAFIYA QURESHI(W) PART-II QURESHI Sc. (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 36 ANUSHREE NANDI(W) AJAY NANDI PART-II Psychology NARENDRA MOHAN 37 SHIPRA SRIVASTAV(W) (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Sanskrit PART-II SRIVASTAV 38 NAZIYA(W) MOHD AYYUB (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Urdu PART-II Group-5 (Commerce stream) 39 IFRAH(W) MOHD ABDULLAH (CBCS )-B.COM. (PROG.) PART-II 40 MAYANK JETHWANI LAXMAN DAS JETWANI (CBCS )-B.COM.(HONS.) PART-II Group -6 (Science stream) SUDHEER KUMAR (CBCS)-B.SC. (Physical 41 VISHU SAROHA PART-II SAROHA Sciences) MOHD PARVEZ 42 NABIYA PARVEZ(W) (CBCS)-B.SC. (Life DEVENDRA SWAROOP PART-II 43 PRERNA GAUR(W) Sciences) GAUR GOLAK CHANDRA 44 JAHNABI KALITA(W) (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) Botany PART-II KALITA (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 45 PAYAL RANI(W) DEVENDRA KUMAR PART-II Chemistry (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 46 NAVYA JAIN(W) PRAVESH KUMAR JAIN PART-II Electronics SHREE GEMANVEER (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 47 ARUN PART-II SINGH Mathematics (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 48 SHUBHAM VERMA HARISH CHAND VERMA PART-II Zoology
The following students have secured the highest percentage of marks in their class in the College in part-III of the University Examinations
Group- 7 (Humanities stream ) NAME OF STUDENT FATHER'S NAME COURSE CLASS 49 YUSRA(W) ABDUL JABBAR (CBCS)-B.A. PROG. PART-III 50 NOMAN JAMIL JAMIL AKHTER (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Arabic PART-III 51 TANJIR ALAM SAFIUR RAHAMAN (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Bengali PART-III JITENDER KUMAR (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 52 SHEKHAR SUMAN(W) PART-III MISHRA Economics 53 IQRA RAZA(W) SM QAISAR RAZA (CBCS)-B.A. (H) English PART-III 54 ARCHANA(W) GIREESH PANDEY (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Hindi PART-III HAOBIJAM HAOBIJAM 55 NINGTHOINGAMBI (CBCS)-B.A. (H) History PART-III CHINGKHEINGALBA CHANU 56 FAISAL MUMTAZ MUMTAZ ALAM (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Persian PART-III (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 57 HIMANI SHAH(W) MUKESH SHAH PART-III Philosophy (CBCS)-B.A. (H) 58 SAMIYA ALI(W) ATHER ALI PART-III Political Sc. 59 MEGHNA BORDOLOI(W) TRIDIB BORDOLOI (CBCS)-B.A. (H) PART-III 60 MONALI SARMA(W) MANABENDRA SARMA Psychology 61 RAJA KUMAR BHAJJO MAHTO (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Sanskrit PART-III 62 ARISHA IRSHAD MOHD IRSHAD (CBCS)-B.A. (H) Urdu PART-III Group-8 (Commerce stream) (CBCS )-B.COM. 63 HARSH THAPAR GURSHARAN THAPAR PART-III (PROG.) NAVNEET KUMAR (CBCS )-B.COM. 64 SHIVANSH AGRAWAL PART-III AGRAWAL (HONS.) Group–9 (Science stream) (CBCS)-B.SC. (Physical 65 PRINCE KUMAR MAHESH KUMAR PART-III Sciences) (CBCS)-B.SC. (Life 66 SOMYA(W) S. N. SHARMA PART-III Sciences) SABARNA SUKANTA (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 67 PART-III BHATTACHARYYA(W) BHATTACHARYYA Botany (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 68 PAPU KALITA PRADIP KR KALITA PART-III Chemistry (CBCS)-B.SC. (H) Electronics 69 VIKAS KUMAR SAROJ DEVI PRASAD SAROJ PART-III
(CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 70 RAGHUVEER PANDEY MAKDOOM PANDEY PART-III Mathematics
(CBCS)-B.SC. (H) 71 MD RAMEEZ MOIN MD MAINUL HAQUE PART-III Zoology The following students have secured the highest percentage of marks in their class in the College in part-I & II of the Masters Examinations in the University
Group –10 (M.A/M.Sc./M.Com.
(PART- I & PART-II) NAME OF STUDENT FATHER'S NAME COURSE CLASS 72 MOHD OSAMA SALEEM ANSARI M.A. Arabic PART-I 73 AYUSHI AGGARWAL(W) RAJIV AGGARWAL M.A. English PART-I 74 MONIKA PATEL(W) ANARAS PATEL M.A. Hindi PART-I 75 FAREHA NAAZ(W) DILDAR HUSSAIN BEIG M.A. History PART-I SHUBHAM SINGH BHADRAVIR SINGH 76 M.A. Philosophy PART-I CHAUHAN CHAUHAN GOLAP CHANDRA 77 MITAKSHARA MEDHI(W) M.A. Psychology PART-I MEDHI 78 SUMIT SHARMA SANJEEVAN SHARMA M.A. Sanskrit PART-I 79 MD WASIM AKHTAR OBAIDUR RAHMAN M.A. Urdu PART-I 80 ANCHAL GUPTA(W) SURESH KUMAR GUPTA M.COM. PART-I 81 BUBUL DAS UDDHAB DAS M.Sc. Chemistry PART-I 82 PRADEEP BISHT TULA SINGH BISHT M.Sc. Mathematics PART-I 83 ZAFEER AHMAD ARSHAD HUSAIN M.A. Arabic PART-II 84 AMITABH JOSHI VINOD JOSHI M.A. English PART-II 85 SATYA PRAKASH TIWARI JAG JEEVAN PRASAD M.A. Hindi PART-II ABHASH KUMAR CHANDRA KANT 86 M.A. History PART-II SAURAV CHOUDHARY SANJAY KUMAR 87 HIMANSHU PARCHA M.A. Philosophy PART-II PARCHA 88 NARESH JAI SINGH M.A. Political Science PART-II 89 ANKITA SEHRAWAT(W) G S SEHRAWAT M.A. Psychology PART-II 90 GAUTAM RAMVEER ARYA M.A. Sanskrit PART-II 91 AMANATULLAH SAMI AHMAD M.A. Urdu PART-II 92 SIDHARTH SINGH BAIS VIRENDRA SINGH BAIS M.COM. PART-II 93 MS.INDU SONI(W) SHANKAR LAL SONI M.Sc. Chemistry PART-II 94 ASHNA GOEL(W) VIRENDRA GOEL M.Sc. Mathematics PART-II
II College Awards:
Colour S.No. Name Course Year 1 NAMAN SHRIVASTAVA B.Sc(HONS) MATHS III Year 2 RAMKRISHNA DWIVEDI B.Sc(HONS) MATHS III Year 3 PAYAL SARDANA B.COM(HONS) III Year 4 DIVYANSHU KUMAR B.A(PROG) III Year 5 ANKUR RAMAN B.A(H) POL. SCIENCE II Year 6 LALITA PATEL B.A(H) POL. SCIENCE III Year 7 SUMIT BERA B.A(PROG) III Year 8 ALYASA ABBAS B.A(HONS)ECONOMICS II Year 9 NISHTA KUMAR B.A(HONS)PSYCOLOGY II Year 10 DAKSH RAJ SHARMA B.A(HONS)ECONOMICS I Year 11 NABEEL KHAN B.A(PROG) I Year 12 FAIRY KUMAR B.COM(HONS) III Year
Crest S.No. Name Course Year 1 SHADAB B.A(H) POLTICAL SCIENCE II Year 2 AMAN KUMAR B.A(H) HINDI III Year 3 PRACHURJYA PHUKAN B.COM (PROG) III Year 4 DEEPSHIKHA GOEL B.A(H) POLTICAL SCIENCE II Year 5 AADIL ASHRAF B.Sc(H) BOTANY II Year 6 ACHYUT RANJAN GOGOI B.Sc(H) CHEMESTRY III Year 7 KRISHNA KUMARI B.Sc(H) CHEMESTRY III Year 8 MOHD HAMMAD B.A(H) POLTICAL SCIENCE III Year 9 VISHAVA PRAKASH B.COM(HONS) II Year 10 ASHWIN NASSA B.COM(HONS) II Year 11 ROBIN SINGH B.A(H) PHIL III Year 12 CHANDANA S ANAND B.A(H) ENGLISH II Year 13 AKASH GUPTA B.COM(HONS) II Year 14 MADIHA AKHTAR B.A(H) POLTICAL SCIENCE III Year 15 PRASHANT B.A(H) HINDI III Year 16 ROHIT LOHAN B.A(H) HISTORY II Year 17 GAURAV SINGH B.A(H) HINDI II Year
Union Award
Shiv Kumar (President) B.Com. (Prog.) III Year College Crest Ankit Rajput (Vice president) B.A. (H) Pol. Science III Year Distinction Abhit Kaushik (Secretary) B.Sc. (H) Mathematics III Year Distinction Mohammad Sameer (Joint Secretary) B.Com. (Prog.) I Year Distinction Mohammad Ayaz (Central Councillor) B.A. (Prog.) I Year Merit Sahil (Central Councillor) B.Com. (H) II Year Merit
COLLEGE AWARDS
Certificate of Distinction S.No. Name Course Year 1 HARSH VERMA B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 2 SHASHWAT SINGH B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 3 ISHITA CHOWDHRY B.Sc.(H) CHEMISTRY III Year 4 SAIMA KHALID B.A. (Prog) III Year 5 ANAM TASLEEM B.A. (Prog) III Year 6 POOJA GIRI B.A. (Prog) I Year 7 NASREEN SAIFI B.A. (Prog) I Year 8 SYED INSHA B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 9 SUVAIBA ZAHEEN B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE I Year 10 ARIJITA SINHA ROY B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 11 ISHA BHAT B.Sc.(H) BOTANY III Year 12 SAKINA ASGHAR B.Sc.(H) BOTANY II Year 13 PARVEEN B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 14 JAHANABI KALITA B.Sc.(H) BOTANY III Year 15 NIFZAH NASIR DEHLVI B.COM. (Prog) III Year 16 ANURAG BARUAH B.COM. (Prog) II Year 17 ZULKAR NAIN B.A.(H) URDU II Year 18 SHIVANI RABHA B.Sc.(H) BOTANY III Year 19 HIMANSHI GUPTA B.Sc.(H) BOTANY II Year 20 SHIVANSH CHAUHAN B.A.(H) ECONOMICS II Year 21 SHAILJA PANCHKARAN B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 22 TEJAS WAGHMARE B.Sc.(H) BOTANY II Year 23 AMIT KUMAR GUPTA B.COM. (H) II Year 24 MAUSHAMI SINGH B.Sc. (H) MATHEMATICS I Year 25 AROOP VERMA B.Sc.(H) BOTANY II Year 26 PARUL VARMA B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 27 AYUSHI KASHYAP B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY II Year 28 MAHIMA B.Sc. LIFE SCIENCE II Year 29 PRARTHANA KACHROO B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY II Year 30 SHIVANGI BANSAL B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY II Year 31 DEVESH BISHT B.A. (H) ENGLISH II Year 32 HRIDYANSHI TOOR B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY II Year 33 NIKITA KHURANA B.COM. (H) II Year 34 BAHAR KALYAN B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 35 UZMA B.A.(H) URDU III Year 36 JYOTI RASTOGI B.COM. (H) II Year 37 MADIHA B.A.(H) URDU III Year 38 MUSLIMA B.A.(Prog) II Year 39 ANKIT RAJPUT B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year
40 ABHIT KAUSHIK B.Sc. (H) MATHEMATICS III Year 41 MOHD SAMEER B.COM. (Prog) I Year
Certificate of Merit: S.No. Name Course Year 1 SAMPADA FOTEDAR B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 2 NITYA VASHISTHA B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 3 KIRAN JOSE B.COM.(H) III Year 4 VERNAN VINCENT VERMA B.A.(Prog) I Year 5 ESHAL PATIL B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 6 AASHNA VERMA B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 7 PRASHANT KUMAR VAIS B.COM.(H) I Year 8 SARITA YADAV B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 9 KEVIN JOSEPH B.A.(H) ECONOMICS I Year 10 NACHIKETA KUKREJA B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 11 KHUSHI CHOUDHARY B.COM.(H) II Year 12 MAJID MUNEER B.A.(H) ECONOMICS III Year 13 AAKASH SHARMA B.A.(H) HINDI I Year 14 RAHUL CHAUHAN B.Sc.(H) MATHEMATICS I Year 15 SHAHID B.A.(Prog) I Year 16 JATIN B.COM.(H) I Year 17 PINAAKI MOHAN B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 18 DEEPAK YADAV B.A.(H) SANSKRIT II Year 19 ARPAN KUMAR B.A.(H) ECONOMICS III Year 20 ZAFAR IQBAL SAEED B.COM.(Prog) I Year 21 MUHAMMAD HAMZA B.A.(H) ENGLISH I Year 22 VALLIKA CHOUDHARY B.A.(H) ENGLISH I Year 23 SAUMYA RAWAL B.A.(Prog) I Year 24 MOHD SADDAM B.A.(Prog) III Year 25 SHUBHAM KUMAR B.A.(H) PHILOSOPHY II Year 26 RIA SEN MAZUMDAR B.A.(H) ENGLISH II Year 27 SAURIN DEY B.A.(H) ECONOMICS II Year 28 SAKSHI BANSAL B.COM.(H) II Year 29 DIKSHA B.COM.(Prog) III Year 30 LATIKA KUMARI B.COM.(H) II Year 31 HIMANI SACHAN B.COM.(Prog) III Year 32 RUBAAB JAHAN B.COM.(H) II Year 33 CHETAN VERMA B.COM.(Prog) III Year 34 ASGHAR HUSAIN B.COM.(Prog) III Year 35 ANISHA MUKHERJEE B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 36 LAKSHMI PRIYA B.A.(H) ECONOMICS II Year 37 VISHAL B.COM.(H) II Year 38 PRITI BHARATI B.Sc.(H) ZOOLOGY II Year 39 MRINMOY MONDAL B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year
40 SUMAYYA B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 41 MD SAMEER MALIK B.COM.(H) I Year 42 NAVEEN GOEL B.Sc.(H) BOTANY III Year 43 MD SHAHBAZ ALAM B.A.(H) URDU I Year 44 AKRITI SINGH B.COM.(H) I Year 45 NADIYA B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 46 SANIYA B.A.(Prog) III Year 47 ADARSH B.A.(H) HISTORY I Year 48 ADIBA B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE II Year 49 ABUL KALAM B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 50 TIKAM SINGH B.A.(Prog) III Year 51 MOHD AYAZ B.A.(Prog) 52 SAHIL B.COM.(H) II Year 53 AARTI BANSAL B.A. (H) POL. SCIENCE I YEAR
Certificate of Proficiency
S.No. Name Course Year 1 PUNIT B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 2 MUSKAN CHOUDHARY B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 3 JYOTI B.COM.(Prog) III Year 4 HARSHIT B.COM.(Prog) III Year 5 MADHUKAR MISHRA B.A.(Prog) III Year 6 WASIM B.A.(H) POLITICAL SCIENCE III Year 7 GARIMA NARULA B.COM.(H) II Year 8 NIKITA SINHA B.COM.(Prog) III Year 9 AREEBA USAMNI B.Sc.(H) ZOOLOGY II Year 10 MOHIT SINGH B.Sc.(H) BOTANY II Year 11 RUCHIKA VERMA B.A.(H) ENGLISH II Year 12 MOHD AMIR B.A.(H) HINDI I Year 13 PRAKASH JHA B.Sc.(H) CHEMISTRY I Year 14 MUKHAR BHARDWAJ B.Sc. PHYSICAL SCIENCE I Year 15 RISHABH JAIN B.COM.(H) II Year 16 ADEEL SHAMS B.Sc. (H) ELECTRONIC II Year 17 P WILLIAM SINGSIT B.A. (Prog) I Year 18 PRADEW RAI B.A.(H) HISTORY II Year 19 SWAPNA ALASE B.A. (Prog) I Year 20 JAVI B.A.(H) HISTORY II Year 21 RIDDHI JOSHI B.A.(H) ECONOMICS II Year 22 NITISH KUMAR BHARTI B.A. (Prog) I Year 23 ALIKA ZAIDI B.COM.(H) I Year 24 PAYAL VERMA B.A.(H) PSYCHOLOGY I Year 25 ISHITA GUPTA B.COM.(H) I Year
III Sports Awards:
SPECIAL COLOR
1. Saurabh Kumar, B.A (H) Hindi 2nd year won gold medal in Nationals of Powerlifting.
2. Alok Pandey, B.A (Prog.) 2nd year won two gold medals in Inter College Judo Tournament organized by Delhi University Sports Council and also won two gold in Junior & Senior State level.
3. AbhineyJha, B.A (Prog.) 2nd year won gold in Inter College Judo tournament & silver in Inter College wrestling tournament organized by DUSC. He was also among the 8 selected from all over India for khelo India.
COLLEGE COLOR (08)
1. Suryansh, B.A (H) Eco. 1st yr and Vardhan,B.A (H) English1 st yr won Gold medal in Inter college Judo Tournament and Prajwal, B.A (H) History 1st yr & Imran Khan, B.A (Prog.) 1st yr won gold in Judo at state level.In recognition of their outstanding achievement they are being awarded the college colour.
2. Rahul Sirari, B.A Prog 3rd Yr and David, B.A Prog1 st yr of college football team have distinction of representing University of Delhi in the North Zone & All India Inter University Football Championship held at Ludhiana.
3. Mujtaba Khan, B.A (H)Pol.Sc. 3rd year and Sahil, B.A (H) Sanskrit 3rd year selected for Football Senior Nationals Santosh Trophy 2019.
COLLEGE CREST
College Football team stood second in the inter college football tournament organized by Delhi University Sports Council.
S.No. Name of Sports Achiever Course 1 Harsh Chhetri B.A (Prog.) 2nd yr 2 Praduman Yadav B.A (Prog.) 2nd yr 3 Kevin Malhotra B.A (Prog.)2 nd yr 4 Abhishek B.A (Prog.) 3rd yr 5 Anurag Singh B.Com 3rd yr 6 VanlalZahawma B.A (Prog.) 2nd yr 7 TusharTanwar B.A (Prog.) 1st yr 8 RadheShyamDhaker B.A (H) History 2nd yr 9 ZangdipouPanmei B.A (Prog.) 2nd yr 10 Karmanya Bansal B.A (Prog.) 2nd yr 11 Chirag Narang B.A (H) Eco 1st yr 12 Mohd. Ansar B.A (Prog.) 1st yr
13 Basant B.A (Prog.)3 rd yr 14 Rishi Raj Singh B.A (H) Pol.Sc. 1st yr 15 KevisanyuPeseyie B.A(H) History 2nd yr
The college Table Tennis team and Volleyball team have won many open tournaments and performed quite well in the Inter-college tournament organized by Delhi University Sports Council.
S.No. Name Course 16 Sahil B.A (H) Eco. 2nd year B. Com 2nd year 17 Himanshu st 18 Aniket Malik B.A (P) 1 yr 19 Pranav Gupta B.Com (H) 1st yr 20 MohdSaleem B.A (H) Hindi 3rd year 21 Jawal Kishore Singh B.Sc. Phy. Sc. 3rd year 22 Deepak Sharma B.Com (H) 3rd year
23 Mohd. Akram B.A (H) Hindi 2nd year
nd 24 Puneet Sharma B.Sc. Life Sc. 2 year 25 Ashish Tomar B.A (Prog.) 2nd year 26 Suhail Raza B. A (H) Hindi 1st year 27 MasroorAlam B. A (H) Hindi 1st year 28 Rahul Yadav B. Sc. Physical Sc. 1st yr 29 Akshat M.Com (P)
30. Nikita B.A (Prog.) 3rd year won silver medal
whereas, Sapna B.Com 1st year &Kalpana B.A (Prog.) 2nd year won Bronze medal in Inter college Judo tournament organized by DUSC.
31. AmanJha B.A (Prog.) 2nd year won silver in Inter College Athletics Meet organized by DUSC.
CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION
The certificate of distinction is being awarded to all the Captains of various teams their contribution towards the promotion of their respective games in college.
S.No Name of the Captain Course Game 1. Atul Chauhan B.Com 3rd year Chess 2. Anita B.A(H) Pol.Sc. 3rd year Chess 3. ShivamTripati B.A 3rd year Cricket 4. Mansi B.Com Table Tennis (W) 5. Sahil B.A(H) Eco. 2nd year Table Tennis 6. Mujtaba Khan B.A (Prog) 3rd year Football
7. AlokPanday B.A (Prog.) 2nd year Judo 8. Nikita B.A (Prog.) 3rd yr Judo (W) 9. Abhishek B.A (Prog.) 3rd year Basketball 10. Deepak Sharma B.Com 3rd year Volleyball
IV NCC Awards: College Colour: S.No. Name Course 1 SUO Munshi Rana B.A. (H) English 2 SUO Raju Kumar Singh B.A. (H) English 3 JUO Himanshu Khewaria B.A. (H) History 4 JUO Ubais B.A. (Prog.) 5 JUO Deepak B.A. (H) History 6 SUO Shantanu Narain B.A. (H) Political Science
College Crest: S.No. Name Course 1 Cadet Manav Kuri B.Sc. (Physical Science) 2 Cadet Sanjeev B.Sc. (Physical Science) 3 Cadet Himanshu Malviya B.A. (H) Psychology 4 Cadet Yogesh B.Sc. (Physical Science) 5 Cadet Utkarsh Goswami B.Sc. (Life Sciences)
Certificate of Distinction
S.No. Name Course 1 Somya B.A. (H) History 2 Aishwarya B.A. (H) History 3 Suman B.A. (H) History 4 Mohd. Tehsin B.A. (H) Persian
Certificate of Merit: S.No. Name Course 1 Cadet Manish Yadav B.Com. (P) 2 Cadet Abhishek Pradhan B.Sc. (Life Science) 3 Cadet Udit Vibhu Sharma B.A. (H) Philosophy 4 Cadet Arman Alam B.Sc. (Life Science) 5 Cadet Sameer B.A. (H) Hindi 6 Cadet Aalok Mallick B.Com. (P) 7 Cadet Aman Singh B.A. (H) Philosophy 8 Cadet Puneet Yadav B.A. (Prog.) 9 Cadet Anup Sharma B.A. (H) Hindi 10 Cadet Govind Kanaujia B.A. (Prog.)